Category
page 1Estimation methods
Delphi method
structured forecasting and consensus method
expectation–maximization algorithm
iterative method for finding maximum likelihood estimates in statistical models
German tank problem
estimating the maximum of a discrete uniform distribution from sampling without replacement, historically from predicting German tank production based on ascending serial numbers in tanks lost in combat
Bessel's correction
multiplicative correction for an estimator for variance, such that it becomes unbiased
Tikhonov regularization
regularization technique for ill-posed problems
Delta method
method in statistics
generalized least squares
used for fitting linear regression with correlated and/or heteroscedastic errors
generalized method of moments
parameter estimation technique in statistics, particularly econometrics
ridge regression
regularization technique for ill-posed problems
Sample mean and covariance
statistics computed from a sample of data
crowd counting
technique used to count or estimate the number of people in a crowd
Newey–West estimator
statistical tool