distributional assumption
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assumption
noun
uk/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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Furthermore, the general behavior of the heuristics does not appear to be much affected by thedistributionalassumption.
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Consequently, 2 the growth-optimal bounds under thisdistributionalassumptionprovides almost the same information as the minimum variance bounds, particularly in the continuous-time diffusion limit.
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Parametric bootstrapping makesdistributionalassumptionconcerning the statistic in question and samples from that distribution, whereas nonparametric bootstrapping samples from an empirical data set.
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Although thisdistributionalassumptionis not without controversy, it represents a good starting point to obtain more analytical insights into the mechanism of volatility bounds and risk premia.
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It is difficult to establish the validity of anydistributionalassumption, and this is a common criticism of random effects meta-analyses.
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The latter has the advantage of making fewer assumptions whereas, the former tend to yield more powerful tests when thedistributionalassumptionis reasonable.
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We now show a similar result for the total expected completion time under the stricter distributional assumptions described earlier.
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Bootstrapping compares arithmetic means, while avoiding distributional assumptions.
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Many widely used statistical procedures are known to be quite robust to violations of their distributional assumptions.
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They also present an analysis of identification without imposing distributional assumptions on the unobservables.
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Whereas alternative distributional assumptions for effect data await future work, non-normality was introduced for the cost data.
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Montgomerie fails to acknowledge efforts to deal with distributional assumptions.
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In the remainder of this section we provide characterizations of the optimal control problem described earlier without making any distributional assumptions for service times and lifetimes.
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We no longer have to make bold distributional assumptions about our data that have no evidentiary support, but whose violation could cause error in our inferences.
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The exact methods that do not make any distributional assumptions are referred to as exact nonparametric methods.
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However, simulations have shown that methods are relatively robust even under extreme distributional assumptions, both in estimating heterogeneity, and calculating an overall effect size.
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Bootstrap methods do not have any specific distributional assumptions and may be an appropriate tool to use like using re-sampling, which is one of the simplest bootstrap methods.
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