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Perfect Prediction: Why Would We Ever Use a Statistical Model?
Dear statistics experts
I need your help with something that has bothered me for a while now. My problem revolves around perfect prediction and essentially boils down to:
Why would we ever set up and ...
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How do I estimate a smooth cdf from a set of observations?
I have a set of observation, let's call it $X$ and would like to fit a cdf to it. $X$ has a distribution which is roughly approximable with the normal distribution. This CDF should correspond to a ...