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

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

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

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

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

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

of models for which substantial reduction in the complexity of the related statistical theory is possible. For the regression case, the statistical model...

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...

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...