Feb 10th, 2009| 04:37 pm | Posted by hlee
A continuation from my posting, titled circumspect frequentist.
Title: Statistical Models: Theory and Practice (click for the publisher’s website)
My one line review, rather a comment several months ago was
Bias in asymptotic standard errors is not a familiar topic for astronomers
and I don’t understand why I wrote it but I think I came up this comment owing to my pursuit of modeling measurement errors occurring in astronomical researches. Continue reading ‘A book by David Freedman’ »
Jan 15th, 2009| 06:01 pm | Posted by hlee
I wonder what Fisher, Neyman, and Pearson would say if they see “Technique” after “Likelihood Ratio” instead of “Test.” A presenter’s saying “Likelihood Ratio Technique” for source identification, I couldn’t resist checking it out not to offend founding fathers of the likelihood principle in statistics since “Technique” sounded derogatory to be attached with “Likelihood” to my ears. I thank, above all, the speaker who kindly gave me the reference about this likelihood ratio technique. Continue reading ‘Likelihood Ratio Technique’ »
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