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The world is filled with changes. An awareness of those changes can help people avoid unnecessary losses and to harness beneficial transitions. In many practical situations, a statistician is faced with the problem of detecting the number of change points or jumps and their locations. This is known as the change point problem. Enormous practical problems can be found in many disciplines.
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Chen, J., Gupta, A.K. (2012). Preliminaries. In: Parametric Statistical Change Point Analysis. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4801-5_1
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