Explain what is meant by statistical inference. Define a point estimate and population parameter and list common types of point estimates and parameters Identify point estimates and parameters when ...

Ideal point estimation is a topic of central importance in political science. Published work relying on the ideal point estimates of Poole and Rosenthal for the U.S. Congress is too numerous to list.

As a follow-on course to "Linear Kalman Filter Deep Dive", this course derives the steps of the extended Kalman filter and the sigma-point Kalman filter for estimating the state of nonlinear dynamic ...

The Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June 2014), pp. 852-885 (34 pages) Poverty maps are used to aid important political decisions such as allocation of development funds by governments ...