The purpose of this tutorial is to continue our exploration of regression by constructing linear models with two or more explanatory variables. This is an extension of Lesson 9. I will start with a ...

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The main purpose of this paper is to clarify relations and distinctions between several approaches suggested in the statistical literature for analysing structures in correlation matrices, i.e. of ...

Abstract. We design a numerical scheme for solving the Multi-step Forward Dynamic Programming (MDP) equation arising from the time-discretization of backward stochastic differential equations. The ...

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“The statistician knows...that in nature there never was a normal distribution, there never was a straight line, yet with normal and linear assumptions, known to be false, he can often derive results ...