Extremal Families and Systems of Sufficient Statistics (eBook)

Steffen L. Lauritzen (Autor)

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2012
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-1-4612-1023-8 (ISBN)

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The pOint of view behind the present work is that the connection between a statistical model and a statistical analysis-is a dua- lity (in a vague sense). In usual textbooks on mathematical statistics it is often so that the statistical model is given in advance and then various in- ference principles are applied to deduce the statistical ana- lysis to be performed. It is however possible to reverse the above procedure: given that one wants to perform a certain statistical analysis, how can this be expressed in terms of a statistical model? In that sense we think of the statistical analysis and the stati- stical model as two ways of expressing the same phenomenon, rather than thinking of the model as representing an idealisation of "e;truth"e; and the statistical analysis as a method of revealing that truth to the scientist. It is not the aim of the present work to solve the problem of giving the correct-anq final mathematical description of the quite complicated relation between model andanalysis. We have rather restricted ourselves to describe a particular aspect of this, formulate it in mathematical terms, and then tried to make a rigorous and consequent investigation of that mathematical struc- ture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• ISBN-10: 1-4612-1023-2 / 1461210232
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4612-1023-8 / 9781461210238