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Statistical estimation

There are many different ways of discussing statistical estimation...

Goals

Point estimation
Interval estimation
multivariate estimation??
Regression/Model building[?]

Approaches/Philosophies

frequentist, or classical
Bayesian estimation[?]
fiducial??

Methods

(mixture of all of the above)

Maximum likelihood estimation[?]
Method of moments[?]
Least squares
Influence functions[?]?
Confidence interval[?] (or region)
Highest posterior density[?] interval/region
Fiducial[?]??
etc...

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