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  2. Box–Cox distribution - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, the BoxCox distribution (also known as the power-normal distribution) is the distribution of a random variable X for which the BoxCox transformation on X follows a truncated normal distribution. It is a continuous probability distribution having probability density function (pdf) given by

  3. Power transform - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, a power transform is a family of functions applied to create a monotonic transformation of data using power functions.It is a data transformation technique used to stabilize variance, make the data more normal distribution-like, improve the validity of measures of association (such as the Pearson correlation between variables), and for other data stabilization procedures.

  4. Data transformation (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    In the lower plot, both the area and population data have been transformed using the logarithm function. In statistics, data transformation is the application of a deterministic mathematical function to each point in a data set—that is, each data point z i is replaced with the transformed value y i = f(z i), where f is a function.

  5. All models are wrong - Wikipedia

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    Box used the aphorism again in 1979, where he expanded on the idea by discussing how models serve as useful approximations, despite failing to perfectly describe empirical phenomena. [7] He reiterated this sentiment in his later works , where he discussed how models should be judged based on their utility rather than their absolute correctness.

  6. Estimation of covariance matrices - Wikipedia

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    The parameter belongs to the set of positive-definite matrices, which is a Riemannian manifold, not a vector space, hence the usual vector-space notions of expectation, i.e. "[^]", and estimator bias must be generalized to manifolds to make sense of the problem of covariance matrix estimation.

  7. George E. P. Box - Wikipedia

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    George Edward Pelham Box FRS [1] (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".

  8. Regression analysis - Wikipedia

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    ,) must be linearly independent: one must not be able to reconstruct any of the independent variables by adding and multiplying the remaining independent variables. As discussed in ordinary least squares , this condition ensures that X T X {\displaystyle X^{T}X} is an invertible matrix and therefore that a unique solution β ^ {\displaystyle ...

  9. Box–Jenkins method - Wikipedia

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    The data they used were from a gas furnace. These data are well known as the Box and Jenkins gas furnace data for benchmarking predictive models. Commandeur & Koopman (2007, §10.4) [2] argue that the Box–Jenkins approach is fundamentally problematic. The problem arises because in "the economic and social fields, real series are never ...