New method identifies the root causes of statistical outliers

Re:New method identifies the root causes of statistical outl... by amelius on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @08:26PM (#32159773)

Quantum mechanics allows a basketball to spontaneously morph into a rocket and back .. It's not very likely, but it can happen in theory. Statisticians should be able to deal with it in any case.

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Re:New method identifies the root causes of statistical outl... by uoaei on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @09:29PM (#32160208)

Then you require a hierarchial model which first estimates the membership of observations to discrete and non-overlapping sets of objects, and second estimates the quantity of interest. This is still a mixture distribution.

Statisticians are known to use this kind of model. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet_process

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