Authors: Lee, Chiang-Sheng
Vardeman, Stephen B.
Title: Likelihood-Based Statistical Estimation from Quantized Data
Language (ISO): en
Abstract: Most standard statistical methods treat numerical data as if they were real (infinite-number-of-decimal-places) observations. The issue of quantization or digital resolution is recognized by engineers and metrologists, but is largely ignored by statisticians and can render standard statistical methods inappropriate and misleading. This article discusses some of the difficulties of interpretation and corresponding difficulties of inference arising in even very simple measurement contexts, once the presence of quantization is admitted. It then argues (using the simple case of confidence interval estimation based on a quantized random sample from a normal distribution as a vehicle) for the use of statistical methods based on “rounded data likelihood functions” as an effective way of dealing with the issue.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2003/5001
http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-15039
Issue Date: 2003
Provenance: Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund
Appears in Collections:Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 475

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