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Algebraic Diagnosis of Outliers

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In Chap. 7, we introduced parameter estimation from observational data sample and defined the models applicable to linear and nonlinear cases. In-order for the estimates to be meaningful however.

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Awange, J.L., Paláncz, B. (2016). Algebraic Diagnosis of Outliers. In: Geospatial Algebraic Computations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25465-4_19

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