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Statistical Inference

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Inference about the values of parameters involved in statistical distributions is known as estimation.

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Pham, H. (2022). Statistical Inference. In: Statistical Reliability Engineering. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76904-8_3

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