13Review of statistical procedures
Even though we assumed at the outset that the readers of this book are familiar with basic probability theory, we do not assume that they are necessarily familiar with most statistical techniques and concepts that are necessary for the examples analyzed in this volume.
Even though statistical estimation and hypothesis testing are tools that most applied mathematicians are familiar with, we review that material anyway. There are several sections devoted to cluster analysis and the EM method. These are important for the disentangling problems discussed in Chapter 11. There are various sections devoted to different methods to quantify the quality of the maxentropic reconstructions and the different goodness of ...
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