Estimand
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Estimand
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An estimand is a quantity that is to be estimated in a statistical analysis. The term is used to distinguish the target of inference from the method used to obtain an approximation of this target and the specific value obtained from a given method and dataset. For instance, a normally distributed random variable X has two defining parameters, its mean μ and variance σ 2 . A variance estimator: s 2 = ∑ i = 1 n 2 / , yields an estimate of 7 for a data set x = { 2 , 3 , 7 } ; then s 2 is called an
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