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Data analysis and approximate models : model choice, location-scale, analysis of variance, nonparametic regression and image analysis /

"This book presents a philosophical study of statistics via the concept of data approximation. Developed by the well-regarded author, this approach discusses how analysis must take into account that models are, at best, an approximation of real data. It is, therefore, closely related to robust...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davies, Patrick Laurie (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2014.
Series:Monographs on statistics and applied probability (Series) ; 133.
Subjects:
Probabilities > Philosophy.
Approximation theory.
Probabilités > Philosophie.
Théorie de l'approximation.
Approximation theory
Probabilities > Philosophy
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A concept of approximation
  • Discrete models
  • Outliers
  • The location-scale problem
  • The analysis of variance
  • Non-parametric regression: location
  • Non-parametric regression: scale
  • Image analysis
  • Non-parametric densities
  • A critique of statistics.