A statistical model is a mathematical model that embodies a set of statistical assumptions concerning the generation of sample data (and similar data from...

statistics, model validation is the task of evaluating whether a chosen statistical model is appropriate or not. Oftentimes in statistical inference, inferences...

In statistics, model specification is part of the process of building a statistical model: specification consists of selecting an appropriate functional...

A language model is a probabilistic model of a natural language. In 1980, the first significant statistical language model was proposed, and during the...

for which we wish to draw inferences, statistical inference consists of (first) selecting a statistical model of the process that generates the data...

degree of statistical modelling. Terminology is inconsistent, but three major types can be distinguished, following Jebara (2004): A generative model is a...

social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied. Populations can be diverse groups of...

increases. Statistical models specify a set of statistical assumptions and processes that represent how the sample data are generated. Statistical models have...

Test models realized with Markov chains can be understood as a usage model: it is referred to as Usage/Statistical Model Based Testing. Usage models, so...

learning and more generally statistical analysis, this may be the selection of a statistical model from a set of candidate models, given data. In the simplest...