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estimation theory [‚es·tə′mā·shən ‚thē·ə·rē] (statistics) A branch of probability and statistics concerned with deriving information about properties of random variables, stochastic processes, and systems based on observed samples. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Incorporation of such a statistical estimation framework into real-time surveillance of future infectious disease outbreaks would enhance the ability of epidemiologists to provide timely advice to public health policymakers. In other words, Krueger and Zhu also now report consistently positive results for African-Americans, regardless of how ethnicity is defined, even when kindergartners are included in the analysis--as long as baseline scores (and only baseline scores) are taken into account in the statistical estimation of programmatic effects. Thus, the problem of within-family identification is one of statistical estimation, estimation of the underlying parameter(s) that uniquely identify a member of the assumed family implied by the data. |
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