empirical distribution

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empirical
adjective
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/ɪmˈpɪr.ɪ.kəl/us
/emˈpɪr.ɪ.kəl/
based on what is experienced or seen rather than ...
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distribution
noun[C or U]
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/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us
/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
the process of giving things out to several people, or spreading or ...
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Theempiricaldistributionof the likelihood ratio test statistic was generated in the same manner for each censoring situation under the null hypothesis.
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We obtain large-deviation approximations for theempiricaldistributionfor a general family of occupancy problems.
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Moreover, in our simulations of the global model, the t -statisticempiricaldistributionis translated to the right of zero in these cases.
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We consider theempiricaldistributionof a trajectory generic with respect to the absolutely continuous invariant measure of an expanding map of the interval.
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For the "bootstrap" results, 1,000 new samples were independently drawn from theempiricaldistributionof the prewhitened data.
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A density trace is a non-parametric model of theempiricaldistributionof a collection of data.
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It works by collecting many known plaintext/ciphertext pairs and calculating theempiricaldistributionof certain characteristics.
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This expression asserts the pointwise convergence of theempiricaldistributionfunction to the true cdf.
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For example, confidence bands can be constructed around estimates of theempiricaldistributionfunction.
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Statistical quantities computed from realizations without deploying a statistical model are often called empirical, as inempiricaldistributionfunction or empirical probability.
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Theempiricaldistributionof the data (the histogram) should be bell-shaped and resemble the normal distribution.
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One standard choice for an approximating distribution is theempiricaldistributionof the observed data.
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This latter limit always exists for sums of indicator functions, so that theempiricaldistributionis always well-defined.
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This means that the underlying distribution can be given an operational interpretation as the limitingempiricaldistributionof the sequence of values.
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In such case a possible extension would be a richer family of distributions, having more than two parameters and therefore being able to fit theempiricaldistributionmore accurately.
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One approach is to visualize summary statistics, such as theempiricaldistributionfunctions of single dimensions of technical or biological replicates to ensure they are the similar.
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The test results suggest that these empirical distributions are not statistically different.
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Stability can be verified in the process of computation of the empirical distributions by checking whether the empirical frequencies converge as the sample length is increased.
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Our hesitation has been that the empirical distributions of parameter estimates and residuals we have seen have been decidedly non-normal, but standard methods for random effects assume underlying normality.
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These calculations require theoretical or empirical distributions of direct and diffuse radiation in the open, without canopy or other sky obstruction.
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