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From Unbiased Numerical Estimates To Unbiased Interval Estimates, Baokun Li, Gang Xiang, Vladik Kreinovich, Panagios Moscopoulos Aug 2012

From Unbiased Numerical Estimates To Unbiased Interval Estimates, Baokun Li, Gang Xiang, Vladik Kreinovich, Panagios Moscopoulos

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

One of the main objectives of statistics is to estimate the parameters of a probability distribution based on a sample taken from this distribution. Of course, since the sample is finite, the estimate X is, in general, different from the actual value x of the corresponding parameter. What we can require is that the corresponding estimate is unbiased, i.e., that the mean value of the difference X - x is equal to 0: E[X] = x. In some problems, unbiased estimates are not possible. We show that in some such problems, it is possible to have interval unbiased estimates, i.e., …


Changes Across 25 Years Of Statistics In Medicine, Johanna S. Hardin Jan 2012

Changes Across 25 Years Of Statistics In Medicine, Johanna S. Hardin

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

[This piece is a series of interviews with giants in the field of medicine on their views of how statistics is changing medicine. I interviewed the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, a preeminent doctor/researcher of lung cancer, the director of the LA County Department of Public Health, and a Harvard statistician who sits on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine.]


Medicine, Statistics, And Education: The Inextricable Link, Katharine K. Brieger '11, Johanna S. Hardin Jan 2012

Medicine, Statistics, And Education: The Inextricable Link, Katharine K. Brieger '11, Johanna S. Hardin

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

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