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• Natural experiment — A natural experiment is an observational study in which the assignment of treatments to subjects has been haphazard: That is, the assignment of treatments has been made by nature , but not by experimenters. Thus, a natural experiment is not a… …   Wikipedia

• James-Stein estimator — The James Stein estimator is a nonlinear estimator which can be shown to dominate, or outperform, the ordinary (least squares) technique. As such, it is the best known example of Stein s phenomenon.An earlier version of the estimator was… …   Wikipedia

• Kaplan–Meier estimator — The Kaplan–Meier estimator,[1][2] also known as the product limit estimator, is an estimator for estimating the survival function from life time data. In medical research, it is often used to measure the fraction of patients living for a certain… …   Wikipedia

• Bayes estimator — In decision theory and estimation theory, a Bayes estimator is an estimator or decision rule that maximizes the posterior expected value of a utility function or minimizes the posterior expected value of a loss function (also called posterior… …   Wikipedia

• Bias of an estimator — In statistics, the difference between an estimator s expected value and the true value of the parameter being estimated is called the bias. An estimator or decision rule having nonzero bias is said to be biased.Although the term bias sounds… …   Wikipedia

• Kaplan-Meier estimator — The Kaplan Meier estimator (also known as the product limit estimator) estimates the survival function from life time data. In medical research, it might be used to measure the fraction of patients living for a certain amount of time after… …   Wikipedia

• Normal distribution — This article is about the univariate normal distribution. For normally distributed vectors, see Multivariate normal distribution. Probability density function The red line is the standard normal distribution Cumulative distribution function …   Wikipedia

• Instrumental variable — In statistics, econometrics, and related disciplines, the method of instrumental variables (IV) is used to estimate causal relationships when controlled experiments are not feasible. Statistically, IV methods allow consistent estimation when the… …   Wikipedia

• Odds ratio — The odds ratio [1][2][3] is a measure of effect size, describing the strength of association or non independence between two binary data values. It is used as a descriptive statistic, and plays an important role in logistic regression. Unlike… …   Wikipedia

• Kriging — is a group of geostatistical techniques to interpolate the value of a random field (e.g., the elevation, z , of the landscape as a function of the geographic location) at an unobserved location from observations of its value at nearby locations.… …   Wikipedia

• Linear regression — Example of simple linear regression, which has one independent variable In statistics, linear regression is an approach to modeling the relationship between a scalar variable y and one or more explanatory variables denoted X. The case of one… …   Wikipedia