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  2. Benford's law - Wikipedia

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    The value of A depends on the value of ε and the distribution of the random variable. A method of accounting fraud detection based on bootstrapping and regression has been proposed. [58] If the goal is to conclude agreement with the Benford's law rather than disagreement, then the goodness-of-fit tests mentioned above are inappropriate.

  3. Expected value - Wikipedia

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    The mass of probability distribution is balanced at the expected value, here a Beta(α,β) distribution with expected value α/(α+β). In classical mechanics, the center of mass is an analogous concept to expectation. For example, suppose X is a discrete random variable with values x i and corresponding probabilities p i.

  4. Normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    Such variables may be better described by other distributions, such as the log-normal distribution or the Pareto distribution. The value of the normal distribution is practically zero when the value lies more than a few standard deviations away from the mean (e.g., a spread of three standard deviations covers all but 0.27% of the total ...

  5. Robust statistics - Wikipedia

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    Robust statistics are statistics that maintain their properties even if the underlying distributional assumptions are incorrect. Robust statistical methods have been developed for many common problems, such as estimating location, scale, and regression parameters. One motivation is to produce statistical methods that are not unduly affected by ...

  6. Hazard ratio - Wikipedia

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    Hazard ratio. In survival analysis, the hazard ratio (HR) is the ratio of the hazard rates corresponding to the conditions characterised by two distinct levels of a treatment variable of interest. For example, in a clinical study of a drug, the treated population may die at twice the rate per unit time [clarify] of the control population.

  7. Log-normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    The log-normal distribution has also been associated with other names, such as McAlister, Gibrat and Cobb–Douglas. [4] A log-normal process is the statistical realization of the multiplicative product of many independent random variables, each of which is positive.

  8. Logistic regression - Wikipedia

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    In regression analysis, logistic regression[1] (or logit regression) estimates the parameters of a logistic model (the coefficients in the linear or non linear combinations). In binary logistic regression there is a single binary dependent variable, coded by an indicator variable, where the two values are labeled "0" and "1", while the ...

  9. Simple linear regression - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In statistics, simple linear regression (SLR) is a linear regression model with a single explanatory variable. [1][2][3][4][5] That is, it concerns two-dimensional sample points with one independent variable and one dependent variable (conventionally, the x and y coordinates in a Cartesian coordinate system) and finds a linear function ...