# A Tutorial in Data Science: Lecture 4 – Statistical Inference by Systems of Conditions

by | Jan 12, 2021 | Math Lecture

We consider here how to estimate a parameter to a distribution given a sample space of observations.  It is important to recognize that the testing of any hypothesis relies upon assumptions, which may be further explicated as obtaining validity based upon the further assumptions.  The system of conditioning, as it expands in explication is thus a branching process, which forms a ‘hypothesis tree at any stopping limit.

Let be a random variable representing the n qualities that can be measured for the thing under investigation, , itself the collected gathering of all its possible appearances, such that . Each sampled measurement of through an interaction with is given as an , each one constituting a unit of indexable time in the catalogable measurement process. Thus, the set of sampled measurements, a , is a partition of ‘internally orderable’ test times within the measurement action, .

is a state-system, i.e the spatio-temporality of the thing in question, in that it has specific space-states at different times . is the function that measures . What if measurement is not Real, but Complex: ? While a real number results from a finite, approximate, or open-ended process of objective empirical measurement, an imaginary number results from a subjective intuition or presupposition to measurement. Every interaction with lets it appear as , which is quantified by . From these interactions, we seek to establish truths about as quantifying the probability that the Claim is correct, which is itself a quantifiable statement about .

Ultimately, we seek the nature of how appears differently depending on one’s interactions with it (i.e. samplings), as thus the actual distribution () of the observed measurements, using our measurement apparatus , that is, we ask about . The assumptions will describe the class of the family of distribution functions which belongs to, i.e. , for the measurements of the appearances of , while the sampling will give the parameter , such that . The hypothesis distribution-parameter () may be either established by prior knowledge () or some the present n-sampling of the state-system (). Thus, the parameter obtained from the present sampling is either used to judge the validity of a prior parameter estimation () or is assessed in its own right (i.e. ) as representative of the actual object’s state-system distribution, the difference between the two hypothesis set-ups, \textit{a priori vs. a posteriori}, being whether the present experiment is seen has having a bias or not. In either the prior or posteriori cases, or , one uses the present sampling to establish the validity of a certain parameter value. If is the expected bias of the experiment, then \& . Thus, in all experiments, the statistical question is primarily that of the bias of the experiment that samples a parameter, whether it is 0 or not, i.e. or .

The truth of the bias of the experiment, i.e. how representative it is, can only be given by our prior assumptions, , such as to know the validity of our claim about the state-system’s distributional parameter, , as the probability our expectation of bias is correct. Our prior assumption, is about the distribution of the -parameters in the class-family of distributions, where , that is about . Here, is a random variable that samples state-systems in the wider class of generally known objects, or equivalently their distributions (i.e. functional representations), measuring the -parameter of their distribution, such that . The distributed-objects in are themselves relative to the measurement system although they may be transformed into other measurement units, in that this distribution class is of all possible state-systems which might measure sample-wise, for which we seek to know specifically about the in question to obtain its distributional -parameter value of . Essentially, the assumption is about a meta-state-system as the set of all objects can measure, and thus has more to do with , the subject’s method of measurement, and , the parametrical aggregation of interest, than with , the specific object of measurement.

, the set of all the parameters to the family of relevant distributions, in that uniquely determines , in that , or .

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