A New Method for Comparing Experiments and Measuring Information

A statistic that summarizes an entire data set without losing any information about the family of distributions or the model is often called a sufficient statistic. Generally, one would like to use the statistic that contains the most information about the parameter space. Sometimes there are severa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kitchin, Patricia Lee III
Other Authors: Statistics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30758
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-92297-162126/