Nuisance parameter
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nuisance-parameter-264-7524063
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Nuisance parameter
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In statistics, a nuisance parameter is any parameter which is unspecified but which must be accounted for in the hypothesis testing of the parameters which are of interest. The classic example of a nuisance parameter comes from the normal distribution, a member of the location–scale family. For at least one normal distribution, the variance(s), σ2 is often not specified or known, but one desires to hypothesis test on the mean(s). Another example might be linear regression with unknown variance i
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Statistical parameter needed for a model but not of primary interest
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2023-05-23T10:40:52Z
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