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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the representation of probability distributions using graphs. For the computer graphics journal, see <a href="Graphical_Models" title="Graphical Models"><i>Graphical Models</i></a>.</div>
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</style><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle">Part of a series on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle"><a href="Machine_learning" title="Machine learning">Machine learning</a><br>and <a href="Data_mining" title="Data mining">data mining</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">
<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Paradigms</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
<ul><li><a href="Supervised_learning" title="Supervised learning">Supervised learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Unsupervised_learning" title="Unsupervised learning">Unsupervised learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Semi-supervised_learning" class="mw-redirect" title="Semi-supervised learning">Semi-supervised learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Self-supervised_learning" title="Self-supervised learning">Self-supervised learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Reinforcement_learning" title="Reinforcement learning">Reinforcement learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Meta-learning_(computer_science)" title="Meta-learning (computer science)">Meta-learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Online_machine_learning" title="Online machine learning">Online learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Batch_learning" class="mw-redirect" title="Batch learning">Batch learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Curriculum_learning" title="Curriculum learning">Curriculum learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Rule-based_machine_learning" title="Rule-based machine learning">Rule-based learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Neuro-symbolic_AI" title="Neuro-symbolic AI">Neuro-symbolic AI</a></li>
<li><a href="Neuromorphic_engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Neuromorphic engineering">Neuromorphic engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Quantum_machine_learning" title="Quantum machine learning">Quantum machine learning</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Problems</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
<ul><li><a href="Statistical_classification" title="Statistical classification">Classification</a></li>
<li><a href="Generative_model" title="Generative model">Generative modeling</a></li>
<li><a href="Regression_analysis" title="Regression analysis">Regression</a></li>
<li><a href="Cluster_analysis" title="Cluster analysis">Clustering</a></li>
<li><a href="Dimensionality_reduction" title="Dimensionality reduction">Dimensionality reduction</a></li>
<li><a href="Density_estimation" title="Density estimation">Density estimation</a></li>
<li><a href="Anomaly_detection" title="Anomaly detection">Anomaly detection</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_cleaning" class="mw-redirect" title="Data cleaning">Data cleaning</a></li>
<li><a href="Automated_machine_learning" title="Automated machine learning">AutoML</a></li>
<li><a href="Association_rule_learning" title="Association rule learning">Association rules</a></li>
<li><a href="Semantic_analysis_(machine_learning)" title="Semantic analysis (machine learning)">Semantic analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Structured_prediction" title="Structured prediction">Structured prediction</a></li>
<li><a href="Feature_engineering" title="Feature engineering">Feature engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Feature_learning" title="Feature learning">Feature learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Learning_to_rank" title="Learning to rank">Learning to rank</a></li>
<li><a href="Grammar_induction" title="Grammar induction">Grammar induction</a></li>
<li><a href="Ontology_learning" title="Ontology learning">Ontology learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Multimodal_learning" title="Multimodal learning">Multimodal learning</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="Supervised_learning" title="Supervised learning">Supervised learning</a><br><span class="nobold"><span style="font-size: 85%;">(<b><a href="Statistical_classification" title="Statistical classification">classification</a></b> • <b><a href="Regression_analysis" title="Regression analysis">regression</a></b>)</span></span> </div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
<ul><li><a href="Apprenticeship_learning" title="Apprenticeship learning">Apprenticeship learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Decision_tree_learning" title="Decision tree learning">Decision trees</a></li>
<li><a href="Ensemble_learning" title="Ensemble learning">Ensembles</a>
<ul><li><a href="Bootstrap_aggregating" title="Bootstrap aggregating">Bagging</a></li>
<li><a href="Boosting_(machine_learning)" title="Boosting (machine learning)">Boosting</a></li>
<li><a href="Random_forest" title="Random forest">Random forest</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="K-nearest_neighbors_algorithm" title="K-nearest neighbors algorithm"><i>k</i>-NN</a></li>
<li><a href="Linear_regression" title="Linear regression">Linear regression</a></li>
<li><a href="Naive_Bayes_classifier" title="Naive Bayes classifier">Naive Bayes</a></li>
<li><a href="Artificial_neural_network" class="mw-redirect" title="Artificial neural network">Artificial neural networks</a></li>
<li><a href="Logistic_regression" title="Logistic regression">Logistic regression</a></li>
<li><a href="Perceptron" title="Perceptron">Perceptron</a></li>
<li><a href="Relevance_vector_machine" title="Relevance vector machine">Relevance vector machine (RVM)</a></li>
<li><a href="Support_vector_machine" title="Support vector machine">Support vector machine (SVM)</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Cluster_analysis" title="Cluster analysis">Clustering</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
<ul><li><a href="BIRCH" title="BIRCH">BIRCH</a></li>
<li><a href="CURE_algorithm" title="CURE algorithm">CURE</a></li>
<li><a href="Hierarchical_clustering" title="Hierarchical clustering">Hierarchical</a></li>
<li><a href="K-means_clustering" title="K-means clustering"><i>k</i>-means</a></li>
<li><a href="Fuzzy_clustering" title="Fuzzy clustering">Fuzzy</a></li>
<li><a href="Expectation%E2%80%93maximization_algorithm" title="Expectation–maximization algorithm">Expectation–maximization (EM)</a></li>
<li><br><a href="DBSCAN" title="DBSCAN">DBSCAN</a></li>
<li><a href="OPTICS_algorithm" title="OPTICS algorithm">OPTICS</a></li>
<li><a href="Mean_shift" title="Mean shift">Mean shift</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Dimensionality_reduction" title="Dimensionality reduction">Dimensionality reduction</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
<ul><li><a href="Factor_analysis" title="Factor analysis">Factor analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Canonical_correlation" title="Canonical correlation">CCA</a></li>
<li><a href="Independent_component_analysis" title="Independent component analysis">ICA</a></li>
<li><a href="Linear_discriminant_analysis" title="Linear discriminant analysis">LDA</a></li>
<li><a href="Non-negative_matrix_factorization" title="Non-negative matrix factorization">NMF</a></li>
<li><a href="Principal_component_analysis" title="Principal component analysis">PCA</a></li>
<li><a href="Proper_generalized_decomposition" title="Proper generalized decomposition">PGD</a></li>
<li><a href="T-distributed_stochastic_neighbor_embedding" title="T-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding">t-SNE</a></li>
<li><a href="Sparse_dictionary_learning" title="Sparse dictionary learning">SDL</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Structured_prediction" title="Structured prediction">Structured prediction</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
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<ul><li><a href="Bayesian_network" title="Bayesian network">Bayes net</a></li>
<li><a href="Conditional_random_field" title="Conditional random field">Conditional random field</a></li>
<li><a href="Hidden_Markov_model" title="Hidden Markov model">Hidden Markov</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Anomaly_detection" title="Anomaly detection">Anomaly detection</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
<ul><li><a href="Random_sample_consensus" title="Random sample consensus">RANSAC</a></li>
<li><a href="K-nearest_neighbors_algorithm" title="K-nearest neighbors algorithm"><i>k</i>-NN</a></li>
<li><a href="Local_outlier_factor" title="Local outlier factor">Local outlier factor</a></li>
<li><a href="Isolation_forest" title="Isolation forest">Isolation forest</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Neural_network_(machine_learning)" title="Neural network (machine learning)">Neural networks</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
<ul><li><a href="Autoencoder" title="Autoencoder">Autoencoder</a></li>
<li><a href="Deep_learning" title="Deep learning">Deep learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Feedforward_neural_network" title="Feedforward neural network">Feedforward neural network</a></li>
<li><a href="Recurrent_neural_network" title="Recurrent neural network">Recurrent neural network</a>
<ul><li><a href="Long_short-term_memory" title="Long short-term memory">LSTM</a></li>
<li><a href="Gated_recurrent_unit" title="Gated recurrent unit">GRU</a></li>
<li><a href="Echo_state_network" title="Echo state network">ESN</a></li>
<li><a href="Reservoir_computing" title="Reservoir computing">reservoir computing</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Boltzmann_machine" title="Boltzmann machine">Boltzmann machine</a>
<ul><li><a href="Restricted_Boltzmann_machine" title="Restricted Boltzmann machine">Restricted</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Generative_adversarial_network" title="Generative adversarial network">GAN</a></li>
<li><a href="Diffusion_model" title="Diffusion model">Diffusion model</a></li>
<li><a href="Self-organizing_map" title="Self-organizing map">SOM</a></li>
<li><a href="Convolutional_neural_network" title="Convolutional neural network">Convolutional neural network</a>
<ul><li><a href="U-Net" title="U-Net">U-Net</a></li>
<li><a href="LeNet" title="LeNet">LeNet</a></li>
<li><a href="AlexNet" title="AlexNet">AlexNet</a></li>
<li><a href="DeepDream" title="DeepDream">DeepDream</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Neural_field" title="Neural field">Neural field</a>
<ul><li><a href="Neural_radiance_field" title="Neural radiance field">Neural radiance field</a></li>
<li><a href="Physics-informed_neural_networks" title="Physics-informed neural networks">Physics-informed neural networks</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Transformer_(deep_learning_architecture)" title="Transformer (deep learning architecture)">Transformer</a>
<ul><li><a href="Vision_transformer" title="Vision transformer">Vision</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Mamba_(deep_learning_architecture)" title="Mamba (deep learning architecture)">Mamba</a></li>
<li><a href="Spiking_neural_network" title="Spiking neural network">Spiking neural network</a></li>
<li><a href="Memtransistor" title="Memtransistor">Memtransistor</a></li>
<li><a href="Electrochemical_RAM" title="Electrochemical RAM">Electrochemical RAM</a> (ECRAM)</li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Reinforcement_learning" title="Reinforcement learning">Reinforcement learning</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
<ul><li><a href="Q-learning" title="Q-learning">Q-learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Policy_gradient_method" title="Policy gradient method">Policy gradient</a></li>
<li><a href="State%E2%80%93action%E2%80%93reward%E2%80%93state%E2%80%93action" title="State–action–reward–state–action">SARSA</a></li>
<li><a href="Temporal_difference_learning" title="Temporal difference learning">Temporal difference (TD)</a></li>
<li><a href="Multi-agent_reinforcement_learning" title="Multi-agent reinforcement learning">Multi-agent</a>
<ul><li><a href="Self-play_(reinforcement_learning_technique)" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-play (reinforcement learning technique)">Self-play</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Learning with humans</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
<ul><li><a href="Active_learning_(machine_learning)" title="Active learning (machine learning)">Active learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Crowdsourcing" title="Crowdsourcing">Crowdsourcing</a></li>
<li><a href="Human-in-the-loop" title="Human-in-the-loop">Human-in-the-loop</a></li>
<li><a href="Mechanistic_interpretability" title="Mechanistic interpretability">Mechanistic interpretability</a></li>
<li><a href="Reinforcement_learning_from_human_feedback" title="Reinforcement learning from human feedback">RLHF</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Model diagnostics</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
<ul><li><a href="Coefficient_of_determination" title="Coefficient of determination">Coefficient of determination</a></li>
<li><a href="Confusion_matrix" title="Confusion matrix">Confusion matrix</a></li>
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<p>A <b>graphical model</b> or <b>probabilistic graphical model</b> (<b>PGM</b>) or <b>structured probabilistic model</b> is a <a href="Probabilistic_model" class="mw-redirect" title="Probabilistic model">probabilistic model</a> for which a <a href="Graph_(discrete_mathematics)" title="Graph (discrete mathematics)">graph</a> expresses the <a href="Conditional_dependence" title="Conditional dependence">conditional dependence</a> structure between <a href="Random_variable" title="Random variable">random variables</a>. Graphical models are commonly used in <a href="Probability_theory" title="Probability theory">probability theory</a>, <a href="Statistics" title="Statistics">statistics</a>—particularly <a href="Bayesian_statistics" title="Bayesian statistics">Bayesian statistics</a>—and <a href="Machine_learning" title="Machine learning">machine learning</a>.
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<p>Generally, probabilistic graphical models use a graph-based representation as the foundation for encoding a distribution over a multi-dimensional space and a graph that is a compact or <a href="Factor_graph" title="Factor graph">factorized</a> representation of a set of independences that hold in the specific distribution. Two branches of graphical representations of distributions are commonly used, namely, <a href="Bayesian_network" title="Bayesian network">Bayesian networks</a> and <a href="Markov_random_field" title="Markov random field">Markov random fields</a>. Both families encompass the properties of factorization and independences, but they differ in the set of independences they can encode and the factorization of the distribution that they induce.<sup id="cite_ref-koller09_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-koller09-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>The undirected graph shown may have one of several interpretations; the common feature is that the presence of an edge implies some sort of dependence between the corresponding random variables. From this graph, we might deduce that B, C, and D are all <a href="Conditional_independence" title="Conditional independence">conditionally independent</a> given A. This means that if the value of A is known, then the values of B, C, and D provide no further information about each other. Equivalently (in this case), the joint probability distribution can be factorized as:
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<p>for some non-negative functions <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f_{AB},f_{AC},f_{AD}}">
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bayesian_network">Bayesian network</h3></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Bayesian_network" title="Bayesian network">Bayesian network</a></div>
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If the network structure of the model is a <a href="Directed_acyclic_graph" title="Directed acyclic graph">directed acyclic graph</a>, the model represents a factorization of the joint <a href="Probability" title="Probability">probability</a> of all random variables. More precisely, if the events are <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle X_{1},\ldots ,X_{n}}">
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<p>where <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\text{pa}}(X_{i})}">
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<p>Any two nodes are <a href="Conditional_independence" title="Conditional independence">conditionally independent</a> given the values of their parents. In general, any two sets of nodes are conditionally independent given a third set if a criterion called <a href="D-separation" class="mw-redirect" title="D-separation"><i>d</i>-separation</a> holds in the graph. Local independences and global independences are equivalent in Bayesian networks.
</p><p>This type of graphical model is known as a directed graphical model, <a href="Bayesian_network" title="Bayesian network">Bayesian network</a>, or belief network. Classic machine learning models like <a href="Hidden_Markov_models" class="mw-redirect" title="Hidden Markov models">hidden Markov models</a>, <a href="Artificial_neural_network" class="mw-redirect" title="Artificial neural network">neural networks</a> and newer models such as <a href="Variable-order_Markov_model" title="Variable-order Markov model">variable-order Markov models</a> can be considered special cases of Bayesian networks.
</p><p>One of the simplest Bayesian Networks is the <a href="Naive_Bayes_classifier" title="Naive Bayes classifier">Naive Bayes classifier</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cyclic_Directed_Graphical_Models">Cyclic Directed Graphical Models</h3></div>
<p>The next figure depicts a graphical model with a cycle. This may be interpreted in terms of each variable 'depending' on the values of its parents in some manner.
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<sup id="cite_ref-richardson95causal_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-richardson95causal-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_types">Other types</h3></div>
<ul><li><a href="Dependency_network_(graphical_model)" title="Dependency network (graphical model)">Dependency network</a> where cycles are allowed</li>
<li>Tree-augmented classifier or <b>TAN model</b></li></ul>
<ul><li>Targeted Bayesian network learning (TBNL) </li>
<li>A <a href="Factor_graph" title="Factor graph">factor graph</a> is an undirected <a href="Bipartite_graph" title="Bipartite graph">bipartite graph</a> connecting variables and factors. Each factor represents a function over the variables it is connected to. This is a helpful representation for understanding and implementing <a href="Belief_propagation" title="Belief propagation">belief propagation</a>.</li>
<li>A <a href="Clique_tree" class="mw-redirect" title="Clique tree">clique tree</a> or junction tree is a <a href="Tree_(graph_theory)" title="Tree (graph theory)">tree</a> of <a href="Clique_(graph_theory)" title="Clique (graph theory)">cliques</a>, used in the <a href="Junction_tree_algorithm" title="Junction tree algorithm">junction tree algorithm</a>.</li>
<li>A <a href="Chain_graph" class="mw-redirect" title="Chain graph">chain graph</a> is a graph which may have both directed and undirected edges, but without any directed cycles (i.e. if we start at any vertex and move along the graph respecting the directions of any arrows, we cannot return to the vertex we started from if we have passed an arrow). Both directed acyclic graphs and undirected graphs are special cases of chain graphs, which can therefore provide a way of unifying and generalizing Bayesian and Markov networks.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>An <a href="Ancestral_graph" title="Ancestral graph">ancestral graph</a> is a further extension, having directed, bidirected and undirected edges.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Random_field" title="Random field">Random field</a> techniques
<ul><li>A <a href="Markov_random_field" title="Markov random field">Markov random field</a>, also known as a Markov network, is a model over an <a href="Undirected_graph" class="mw-redirect" title="Undirected graph">undirected graph</a>. A graphical model with many repeated subunits can be represented with <a href="Plate_notation" title="Plate notation">plate notation</a>.</li>
<li>A <a href="Conditional_random_field" title="Conditional random field">conditional random field</a> is a <a href="Discriminative_model" title="Discriminative model">discriminative model</a> specified over an undirected graph.</li></ul></li>
<li>A <a href="Restricted_Boltzmann_machine" title="Restricted Boltzmann machine">restricted Boltzmann machine</a> is a <a href="Bipartite_graph" title="Bipartite graph">bipartite</a> <a href="Generative_model" title="Generative model">generative model</a> specified over an undirected graph.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Applications">Applications</h2></div>
<p>The framework of the models, which provides algorithms for discovering and analyzing structure in complex distributions to describe them succinctly and extract the unstructured information, allows them to be constructed and utilized effectively.<sup id="cite_ref-koller09_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-koller09-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Applications of graphical models include <a href="Causal_inference" title="Causal inference">causal inference</a>, <a href="Information_extraction" title="Information extraction">information extraction</a>, <a href="Speech_recognition" title="Speech recognition">speech recognition</a>, <a href="Computer_vision" title="Computer vision">computer vision</a>, decoding of <a href="Low-density_parity-check_codes" class="mw-redirect" title="Low-density parity-check codes">low-density parity-check codes</a>, modeling of <a href="Gene_regulatory_network" title="Gene regulatory network">gene regulatory networks</a>, gene finding and diagnosis of diseases, and <a href="Graphical_models_for_protein_structure" title="Graphical models for protein structure">graphical models for protein structure</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Belief_propagation" title="Belief propagation">Belief propagation</a></li>
<li><a href="Structural_equation_model" class="mw-redirect" title="Structural equation model">Structural equation model</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFRichardsonSpirtes2002" class="citation journal cs1">Richardson, Thomas; Spirtes, Peter (2002). "Ancestral graph Markov models". <i><a href="Annals_of_Statistics" title="Annals of Statistics">Annals of Statistics</a></i>. <b>30</b> (4): <span class="nowrap">962–</span>1030. <a href="CiteSeerX_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="CiteSeerX (identifier)">CiteSeerX</a> <span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.33.4906">10.1.1.33.4906</a></span>. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1214%2Faos%2F1031689015">10.1214/aos/1031689015</a>. <a href="MR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="MR (identifier)">MR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=1926166">1926166</a>. <a href="Zbl_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zbl (identifier)">Zbl</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://zbmath.org/?format=complete&q=an:1033.60008">1033.60008</a>.</cite></span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books_and_book_chapters">Books and book chapters</h3></div>
<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFBarber2012" class="citation book cs1">Barber, David (2012). <i>Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning</i>. Cambridge University Press. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-521-51814-7</bdi>.</cite></li></ul>
<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFBishop2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="Christopher_Bishop" title="Christopher Bishop">Bishop, Christopher M.</a> (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Bishop-PRML-sample.pdf">"Chapter 8. Graphical Models"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387310732"><i>Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning</i></a>. Springer. pp. <span class="nowrap">359–</span>422. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-387-31073-2</bdi>. <a href="MR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="MR (identifier)">MR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2247587">2247587</a>.</cite></li>
<li><cite id="cowell" class="citation book cs1">Cowell, Robert G.; <a href="Philip_Dawid" title="Philip Dawid">Dawid, A. Philip</a>; Lauritzen, Steffen L.; <a href="David_Spiegelhalter" title="David Spiegelhalter">Spiegelhalter, David J.</a> (1999). <i>Probabilistic networks and expert systems</i>. Berlin: Springer. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-387-98767-5</bdi>. <a href="MR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="MR (identifier)">MR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=1697175">1697175</a>.</cite> A more advanced and statistically oriented book</li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFJensen,_Finn1996" class="citation book cs1">Jensen, Finn (1996). <i>An introduction to Bayesian networks</i>. Berlin: Springer. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-387-91502-9</bdi>.</cite></li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFPearl1988" class="citation book cs1"><a href="Judea_Pearl" title="Judea Pearl">Pearl, Judea</a> (1988). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/probabilisticrea00pear"><i>Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems</i></a></span> (2nd revised ed.). San Mateo, CA: <a href="Morgan_Kaufmann" class="mw-redirect" title="Morgan Kaufmann">Morgan Kaufmann</a>. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-1-55860-479-7</bdi>. <a href="MR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="MR (identifier)">MR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0965765">0965765</a>.</cite> A computational reasoning approach, where the relationships between graphs and probabilities were formally introduced.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Journal_articles">Journal articles</h3></div>
<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFEdoardo_M._Airoldi2007" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="Edoardo_Airoldi" title="Edoardo Airoldi">Edoardo M. Airoldi</a> (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2134967">"Getting Started in Probabilistic Graphical Models"</a>. <i><a href="PLOS_Computational_Biology" title="PLOS Computational Biology">PLOS Computational Biology</a></i>. <b>3</b> (12): e252. <a href="ArXiv_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ArXiv (identifier)">arXiv</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2040">0706.2040</a></span>. <a href="Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PLSCB...3..252A">2007PLSCB...3..252A</a>. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.0030252">10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030252</a></span>. <a href="PMC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMC (identifier)">PMC</a> <span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2134967">2134967</a></span>. <a href="PMID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMID (identifier)">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18069887">18069887</a>.</cite></li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFJordan2004" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="Michael_I._Jordan" title="Michael I. Jordan">Jordan, M. I.</a> (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1214%2F088342304000000026">"Graphical Models"</a>. <i>Statistical Science</i>. <b>19</b>: <span class="nowrap">140–</span>155. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1214%2F088342304000000026">10.1214/088342304000000026</a></span>.</cite></li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFGhahramani2015" class="citation journal cs1">Ghahramani, Zoubin (May 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/248538">"Probabilistic machine learning and artificial intelligence"</a>. <i>Nature</i>. <b>521</b> (7553): <span class="nowrap">452–</span>459. <a href="Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015Natur.521..452G">2015Natur.521..452G</a>. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature14541">10.1038/nature14541</a></span>. <a href="PMID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMID (identifier)">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26017444">26017444</a>. <a href="S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:216356">216356</a>.</cite></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/heckerman/tutorial.pdf">Heckerman's Bayes Net Learning Tutorial</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Bayes/bnintro.html">A Brief Introduction to Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/~srihari/CSE574">Sargur Srihari's lecture slides on probabilistic graphical models</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sandeep-aparajit.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-does-conditional-random-field-crf.html">Graphical models and Conditional Random Fields</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~epxing/Class/10708/">Probabilistic Graphical Models taught by Eric Xing at CMU</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Outline_of_statistics" title="Outline of statistics">Outline</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_statistics_articles" title="List of statistics articles">Index</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Descriptive_statistics654" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Descriptive_statistics" title="Descriptive statistics">Descriptive statistics</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Continuous_probability_distribution" class="mw-redirect" title="Continuous probability distribution">Continuous data</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Central_tendency" title="Central tendency">Center</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Mean" title="Mean">Mean</a>
<ul><li><a href="Arithmetic_mean" title="Arithmetic mean">Arithmetic</a></li>
<li><a href="Arithmetic%E2%80%93geometric_mean" title="Arithmetic–geometric mean">Arithmetic-Geometric</a></li>
<li><a href="Contraharmonic_mean" title="Contraharmonic mean">Contraharmonic</a></li>
<li><a href="Cubic_mean" title="Cubic mean">Cubic</a></li>
<li><a href="Generalized_mean" title="Generalized mean">Generalized/power</a></li>
<li><a href="Geometric_mean" title="Geometric mean">Geometric</a></li>
<li><a href="Harmonic_mean" title="Harmonic mean">Harmonic</a></li>
<li><a href="Heronian_mean" title="Heronian mean">Heronian</a></li>
<li><a href="Heinz_mean" title="Heinz mean">Heinz</a></li>
<li><a href="Lehmer_mean" title="Lehmer mean">Lehmer</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Median" title="Median">Median</a></li>
<li><a href="Mode_(statistics)" title="Mode (statistics)">Mode</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Average_absolute_deviation" title="Average absolute deviation">Average absolute deviation</a></li>
<li><a href="Coefficient_of_variation" title="Coefficient of variation">Coefficient of variation</a></li>
<li><a href="Interquartile_range" title="Interquartile range">Interquartile range</a></li>
<li><a href="Percentile" title="Percentile">Percentile</a></li>
<li><a href="Range_(statistics)" title="Range (statistics)">Range</a></li>
<li><a href="Standard_deviation" title="Standard deviation">Standard deviation</a></li>
<li><a href="Variance#Sample_variance" title="Variance">Variance</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Central_limit_theorem" title="Central limit theorem">Central limit theorem</a></li>
<li><a href="Moment_(mathematics)" title="Moment (mathematics)">Moments</a>
<ul><li><a href="Kurtosis" title="Kurtosis">Kurtosis</a></li>
<li><a href="L-moment" title="L-moment">L-moments</a></li>
<li><a href="Skewness" title="Skewness">Skewness</a></li></ul></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Index_of_dispersion" title="Index of dispersion">Index of dispersion</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Contingency_table" title="Contingency table">Contingency table</a></li>
<li><a href="Frequency_distribution" class="mw-redirect" title="Frequency distribution">Frequency distribution</a></li>
<li><a href="Grouped_data" title="Grouped data">Grouped data</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Partial_correlation" title="Partial correlation">Partial correlation</a></li>
<li><a href="Pearson_correlation_coefficient" title="Pearson correlation coefficient">Pearson product-moment correlation</a></li>
<li><a href="Rank_correlation" title="Rank correlation">Rank correlation</a>
<ul><li><a href="Kendall_rank_correlation_coefficient" title="Kendall rank correlation coefficient">Kendall's τ</a></li>
<li><a href="Spearman's_rank_correlation_coefficient" title="Spearman's rank correlation coefficient">Spearman's ρ</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Scatter_plot" title="Scatter plot">Scatter plot</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Bar_chart" title="Bar chart">Bar chart</a></li>
<li><a href="Biplot" title="Biplot">Biplot</a></li>
<li><a href="Box_plot" title="Box plot">Box plot</a></li>
<li><a href="Control_chart" title="Control chart">Control chart</a></li>
<li><a href="Correlogram" title="Correlogram">Correlogram</a></li>
<li><a href="Fan_chart_(statistics)" title="Fan chart (statistics)">Fan chart</a></li>
<li><a href="Forest_plot" title="Forest plot">Forest plot</a></li>
<li><a href="Histogram" title="Histogram">Histogram</a></li>
<li><a href="Pie_chart" title="Pie chart">Pie chart</a></li>
<li><a href="Q%E2%80%93Q_plot" title="Q–Q plot">Q–Q plot</a></li>
<li><a href="Radar_chart" title="Radar chart">Radar chart</a></li>
<li><a href="Run_chart" title="Run chart">Run chart</a></li>
<li><a href="Scatter_plot" title="Scatter plot">Scatter plot</a></li>
<li><a href="Stem-and-leaf_display" title="Stem-and-leaf display">Stem-and-leaf display</a></li>
<li><a href="Violin_plot" title="Violin plot">Violin plot</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Effect_size" title="Effect size">Effect size</a></li>
<li><a href="Missing_data" title="Missing data">Missing data</a></li>
<li><a href="Optimal_design" class="mw-redirect" title="Optimal design">Optimal design</a></li>
<li><a href="Statistical_population" title="Statistical population">Population</a></li>
<li><a href="Replication_(statistics)" title="Replication (statistics)">Replication</a></li>
<li><a href="Sample_size_determination" title="Sample size determination">Sample size determination</a></li>
<li><a href="Statistic" title="Statistic">Statistic</a></li>
<li><a href="Statistical_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Statistical power">Statistical power</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Sampling_(statistics)" title="Sampling (statistics)">Sampling</a>
<ul><li><a href="Cluster_sampling" title="Cluster sampling">Cluster</a></li>
<li><a href="Stratified_sampling" title="Stratified sampling">Stratified</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Opinion_poll" title="Opinion poll">Opinion poll</a></li>
<li><a href="Questionnaire" title="Questionnaire">Questionnaire</a></li>
<li><a href="Standard_error" title="Standard error">Standard error</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Experiment" title="Experiment">Controlled experiments</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Blocking_(statistics)" title="Blocking (statistics)">Blocking</a></li>
<li><a href="Factorial_experiment" title="Factorial experiment">Factorial experiment</a></li>
<li><a href="Interaction_(statistics)" title="Interaction (statistics)">Interaction</a></li>
<li><a href="Random_assignment" title="Random assignment">Random assignment</a></li>
<li><a href="Randomized_controlled_trial" title="Randomized controlled trial">Randomized controlled trial</a></li>
<li><a href="Randomized_experiment" title="Randomized experiment">Randomized experiment</a></li>
<li><a href="Scientific_control" title="Scientific control">Scientific control</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Adaptive_clinical_trial" class="mw-redirect" title="Adaptive clinical trial">Adaptive clinical trial</a></li>
<li><a href="Stochastic_approximation" title="Stochastic approximation">Stochastic approximation</a></li>
<li><a href="Up-and-Down_Designs" class="mw-redirect" title="Up-and-Down Designs">Up-and-down designs</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Cohort_study" title="Cohort study">Cohort study</a></li>
<li><a href="Cross-sectional_study" title="Cross-sectional study">Cross-sectional study</a></li>
<li><a href="Natural_experiment" title="Natural experiment">Natural experiment</a></li>
<li><a href="Quasi-experiment" title="Quasi-experiment">Quasi-experiment</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Population_(statistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Population (statistics)">Population</a></li>
<li><a href="Statistic" title="Statistic">Statistic</a></li>
<li><a href="Probability_distribution" title="Probability distribution">Probability distribution</a></li>
<li><a href="Sampling_distribution" title="Sampling distribution">Sampling distribution</a>
<ul><li><a href="Order_statistic" title="Order statistic">Order statistic</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Empirical_distribution_function" title="Empirical distribution function">Empirical distribution</a>
<ul><li><a href="Density_estimation" title="Density estimation">Density estimation</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Statistical_model" title="Statistical model">Statistical model</a>
<ul><li><a href="Model_specification" class="mw-redirect" title="Model specification">Model specification</a></li>
<li><a href="Lp_space" title="Lp space">L<sup><i>p</i></sup> space</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Statistical_parameter" title="Statistical parameter">Parameter</a>
<ul><li><a href="Location_parameter" title="Location parameter">location</a></li>
<li><a href="Scale_parameter" title="Scale parameter">scale</a></li>
<li><a href="Shape_parameter" title="Shape parameter">shape</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Parametric_statistics" title="Parametric statistics">Parametric family</a>
<ul><li><a href="Likelihood_function" title="Likelihood function">Likelihood</a> <a href="Monotone_likelihood_ratio" title="Monotone likelihood ratio"><span style="font-size: 85%;">(monotone)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Location%E2%80%93scale_family" title="Location–scale family">Location–scale family</a></li>
<li><a href="Exponential_family" title="Exponential family">Exponential family</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Completeness_(statistics)" title="Completeness (statistics)">Completeness</a></li>
<li><a href="Sufficient_statistic" title="Sufficient statistic">Sufficiency</a></li>
<li><a href="Plug-in_principle" class="mw-redirect" title="Plug-in principle">Statistical functional</a>
<ul><li><a href="Bootstrapping_(statistics)" title="Bootstrapping (statistics)">Bootstrap</a></li>
<li><a href="U-statistic" title="U-statistic">U</a></li>
<li><a href="V-statistic" title="V-statistic">V</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Optimal_decision" title="Optimal decision">Optimal decision</a>
<ul><li><a href="Loss_function" title="Loss function">loss function</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Efficiency_(statistics)" title="Efficiency (statistics)">Efficiency</a></li>
<li><a href="Statistical_distance" title="Statistical distance">Statistical distance</a>
<ul><li><a href="Divergence_(statistics)" title="Divergence (statistics)">divergence</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Asymptotic_theory_(statistics)" title="Asymptotic theory (statistics)">Asymptotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Robust_statistics" title="Robust statistics">Robustness</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Frequentist_inference" title="Frequentist inference">Frequentist inference</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Point_estimation" title="Point estimation">Point estimation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Estimating_equations" title="Estimating equations">Estimating equations</a>
<ul><li><a href="Maximum_likelihood" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximum likelihood">Maximum likelihood</a></li>
<li><a href="Method_of_moments_(statistics)" title="Method of moments (statistics)">Method of moments</a></li>
<li><a href="M-estimator" title="M-estimator">M-estimator</a></li>
<li><a href="Minimum_distance_estimation" class="mw-redirect" title="Minimum distance estimation">Minimum distance</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Bias_of_an_estimator" title="Bias of an estimator">Unbiased estimators</a>
<ul><li><a href="Minimum-variance_unbiased_estimator" title="Minimum-variance unbiased estimator">Mean-unbiased minimum-variance</a>
<ul><li><a href="Rao%E2%80%93Blackwell_theorem" title="Rao–Blackwell theorem">Rao–Blackwellization</a></li>
<li><a href="Lehmann%E2%80%93Scheff%C3%A9_theorem" title="Lehmann–Scheffé theorem">Lehmann–Scheffé theorem</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Median-unbiased_estimator" class="mw-redirect" title="Median-unbiased estimator">Median unbiased</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Plug-in_principle" class="mw-redirect" title="Plug-in principle">Plug-in</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Interval_estimation" title="Interval estimation">Interval estimation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Confidence_interval" title="Confidence interval">Confidence interval</a></li>
<li><a href="Pivotal_quantity" title="Pivotal quantity">Pivot</a></li>
<li><a href="Likelihood_interval" class="mw-redirect" title="Likelihood interval">Likelihood interval</a></li>
<li><a href="Prediction_interval" title="Prediction interval">Prediction interval</a></li>
<li><a href="Tolerance_interval" title="Tolerance interval">Tolerance interval</a></li>
<li><a href="Resampling_(statistics)" title="Resampling (statistics)">Resampling</a>
<ul><li><a href="Bootstrapping_(statistics)" title="Bootstrapping (statistics)">Bootstrap</a></li>
<li><a href="Jackknife_resampling" title="Jackknife resampling">Jackknife</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Statistical_hypothesis_testing" class="mw-redirect" title="Statistical hypothesis testing">Testing hypotheses</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="One-_and_two-tailed_tests" title="One- and two-tailed tests">1- & 2-tails</a></li>
<li><a href="Power_(statistics)" title="Power (statistics)">Power</a>
<ul><li><a href="Uniformly_most_powerful_test" title="Uniformly most powerful test">Uniformly most powerful test</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Permutation_test" title="Permutation test">Permutation test</a>
<ul><li><a href="Randomization_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Randomization test">Randomization test</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Multiple_comparisons" class="mw-redirect" title="Multiple comparisons">Multiple comparisons</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Parametric_statistics" title="Parametric statistics">Parametric tests</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Likelihood-ratio_test" title="Likelihood-ratio test">Likelihood-ratio</a></li>
<li><a href="Score_test" title="Score test">Score/Lagrange multiplier</a></li>
<li><a href="Wald_test" title="Wald test">Wald</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="List_of_statistical_tests" title="List of statistical tests">Specific tests</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Z-test" title="Z-test"><i>Z</i>-test <span style="font-size: 85%;">(normal)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Student's_t-test" title="Student's t-test">Student's <i>t</i>-test</a></li>
<li><a href="F-test" title="F-test"><i>F</i>-test</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Goodness_of_fit" title="Goodness of fit">Goodness of fit</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Chi-squared_test" title="Chi-squared test">Chi-squared</a></li>
<li><a href="G-test" title="G-test"><i>G</i>-test</a></li>
<li><a href="Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Smirnov_test" title="Kolmogorov–Smirnov test">Kolmogorov–Smirnov</a></li>
<li><a href="Anderson%E2%80%93Darling_test" title="Anderson–Darling test">Anderson–Darling</a></li>
<li><a href="Lilliefors_test" title="Lilliefors test">Lilliefors</a></li>
<li><a href="Jarque%E2%80%93Bera_test" title="Jarque–Bera test">Jarque–Bera</a></li>
<li><a href="Shapiro%E2%80%93Wilk_test" title="Shapiro–Wilk test">Normality <span style="font-size: 85%;">(Shapiro–Wilk)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Likelihood-ratio_test" title="Likelihood-ratio test">Likelihood-ratio test</a></li>
<li><a href="Model_selection" title="Model selection">Model selection</a>
<ul><li><a href="Cross-validation_(statistics)" title="Cross-validation (statistics)">Cross validation</a></li>
<li><a href="Akaike_information_criterion" title="Akaike information criterion">AIC</a></li>
<li><a href="Bayesian_information_criterion" title="Bayesian information criterion">BIC</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Rank_statistics" class="mw-redirect" title="Rank statistics">Rank statistics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Sign_test" title="Sign test">Sign</a>
<ul><li><a href="Sample_median" class="mw-redirect" title="Sample median">Sample median</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Wilcoxon_signed-rank_test" title="Wilcoxon signed-rank test">Signed rank <span style="font-size: 85%;">(Wilcoxon)</span></a>
<ul><li><a href="Hodges%E2%80%93Lehmann_estimator" title="Hodges–Lehmann estimator">Hodges–Lehmann estimator</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Mann%E2%80%93Whitney_U_test" title="Mann–Whitney U test">Rank sum <span style="font-size: 85%;">(Mann–Whitney)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Nonparametric_statistics" title="Nonparametric statistics">Nonparametric</a> <a href="Analysis_of_variance" title="Analysis of variance">anova</a>
<ul><li><a href="Kruskal%E2%80%93Wallis_test" title="Kruskal–Wallis test">1-way <span style="font-size: 85%;">(Kruskal–Wallis)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Friedman_test" title="Friedman test">2-way <span style="font-size: 85%;">(Friedman)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Jonckheere's_trend_test" title="Jonckheere's trend test">Ordered alternative <span style="font-size: 85%;">(Jonckheere–Terpstra)</span></a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Van_der_Waerden_test" title="Van der Waerden test">Van der Waerden test</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Bayesian_inference" title="Bayesian inference">Bayesian inference</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Bayesian_probability" title="Bayesian probability">Bayesian probability</a>
<ul><li><a href="Prior_probability" title="Prior probability">prior</a></li>
<li><a href="Posterior_probability" title="Posterior probability">posterior</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Credible_interval" title="Credible interval">Credible interval</a></li>
<li><a href="Bayes_factor" title="Bayes factor">Bayes factor</a></li>
<li><a href="Bayes_estimator" title="Bayes estimator">Bayesian estimator</a>
<ul><li><a href="Maximum_a_posteriori_estimation" title="Maximum a posteriori estimation">Maximum posterior estimator</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="CorrelationRegression_analysis654" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="Correlation_and_dependence" class="mw-redirect" title="Correlation and dependence">Correlation</a></li><li><a href="Regression_analysis" title="Regression analysis">Regression analysis</a></li></ul></div></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Correlation_and_dependence" class="mw-redirect" title="Correlation and dependence">Correlation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Pearson_product-moment_correlation_coefficient" class="mw-redirect" title="Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient">Pearson product-moment</a></li>
<li><a href="Partial_correlation" title="Partial correlation">Partial correlation</a></li>
<li><a href="Confounding" title="Confounding">Confounding variable</a></li>
<li><a href="Coefficient_of_determination" title="Coefficient of determination">Coefficient of determination</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Regression_analysis" title="Regression analysis">Regression analysis</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Errors_and_residuals" title="Errors and residuals">Errors and residuals</a></li>
<li><a href="Regression_validation" title="Regression validation">Regression validation</a></li>
<li><a href="Mixed_model" title="Mixed model">Mixed effects models</a></li>
<li><a href="Simultaneous_equations_model" title="Simultaneous equations model">Simultaneous equations models</a></li>
<li><a href="Multivariate_adaptive_regression_splines" class="mw-redirect" title="Multivariate adaptive regression splines">Multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS)</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Linear_regression" title="Linear regression">Linear regression</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Simple_linear_regression" title="Simple linear regression">Simple linear regression</a></li>
<li><a href="Ordinary_least_squares" title="Ordinary least squares">Ordinary least squares</a></li>
<li><a href="General_linear_model" title="General linear model">General linear model</a></li>
<li><a href="Bayesian_linear_regression" title="Bayesian linear regression">Bayesian regression</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em">Non-standard predictors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Nonlinear_regression" title="Nonlinear regression">Nonlinear regression</a></li>
<li><a href="Nonparametric_regression" title="Nonparametric regression">Nonparametric</a></li>
<li><a href="Semiparametric_regression" title="Semiparametric regression">Semiparametric</a></li>
<li><a href="Isotonic_regression" title="Isotonic regression">Isotonic</a></li>
<li><a href="Robust_regression" title="Robust regression">Robust</a></li>
<li><a href="Homoscedasticity_and_heteroscedasticity" title="Homoscedasticity and heteroscedasticity">Homoscedasticity and Heteroscedasticity</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Generalized_linear_model" title="Generalized linear model">Generalized linear model</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Exponential_family" title="Exponential family">Exponential families</a></li>
<li><a href="Logistic_regression" title="Logistic regression">Logistic <span style="font-size: 85%;">(Bernoulli)</span></a> / <a href="Binomial_regression" title="Binomial regression">Binomial</a> / <a href="Poisson_regression" title="Poisson regression">Poisson regressions</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Partition_of_sums_of_squares" title="Partition of sums of squares">Partition of variance</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Analysis_of_variance" title="Analysis of variance">Analysis of variance (ANOVA, anova)</a></li>
<li><a href="Analysis_of_covariance" title="Analysis of covariance">Analysis of covariance</a></li>
<li><a href="Multivariate_analysis_of_variance" title="Multivariate analysis of variance">Multivariate ANOVA</a></li>
<li><a href="Degrees_of_freedom_(statistics)" title="Degrees of freedom (statistics)">Degrees of freedom</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Categorical_/_multivariate_/_time-series_/_survival_analysis654" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Categorical_variable" title="Categorical variable">Categorical</a> / <a href="Multivariate_statistics" title="Multivariate statistics">multivariate</a> / <a href="Time_series" title="Time series">time-series</a> / <a href="Survival_analysis" title="Survival analysis">survival analysis</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Categorical_variable" title="Categorical variable">Categorical</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Cohen's_kappa" title="Cohen's kappa">Cohen's kappa</a></li>
<li><a href="Contingency_table" title="Contingency table">Contingency table</a></li>
<li><a href="Poisson_regression" title="Poisson regression">Log-linear model</a></li>
<li><a href="McNemar's_test" title="McNemar's test">McNemar's test</a></li>
<li><a href="Cochran%E2%80%93Mantel%E2%80%93Haenszel_statistics" title="Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel statistics">Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel statistics</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Multivariate_statistics" title="Multivariate statistics">Multivariate</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="General_linear_model" title="General linear model">Regression</a></li>
<li><a href="Multivariate_analysis_of_variance" title="Multivariate analysis of variance">Manova</a></li>
<li><a href="Principal_component_analysis" title="Principal component analysis">Principal components</a></li>
<li><a href="Canonical_correlation" title="Canonical correlation">Canonical correlation</a></li>
<li><a href="Linear_discriminant_analysis" title="Linear discriminant analysis">Discriminant analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Cluster_analysis" title="Cluster analysis">Cluster analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Statistical_classification" title="Statistical classification">Classification</a></li>
<li><a href="Structural_equation_modeling" title="Structural equation modeling">Structural equation model</a>
<ul><li><a href="Factor_analysis" title="Factor analysis">Factor analysis</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Multivariate_distribution" class="mw-redirect" title="Multivariate distribution">Multivariate distributions</a>
<ul><li><a href="Elliptical_distribution" title="Elliptical distribution">Elliptical distributions</a>
<ul><li><a href="Multivariate_normal_distribution" title="Multivariate normal distribution">Normal</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Time_series" title="Time series">Time-series</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Decomposition_of_time_series" title="Decomposition of time series">Decomposition</a></li>
<li><a href="Trend_estimation" class="mw-redirect" title="Trend estimation">Trend</a></li>
<li><a href="Stationary_process" title="Stationary process">Stationarity</a></li>
<li><a href="Seasonal_adjustment" title="Seasonal adjustment">Seasonal adjustment</a></li>
<li><a href="Exponential_smoothing" title="Exponential smoothing">Exponential smoothing</a></li>
<li><a href="Cointegration" title="Cointegration">Cointegration</a></li>
<li><a href="Structural_break" title="Structural break">Structural break</a></li>
<li><a href="Granger_causality" title="Granger causality">Granger causality</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Specific tests</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Dickey%E2%80%93Fuller_test" title="Dickey–Fuller test">Dickey–Fuller</a></li>
<li><a href="Johansen_test" title="Johansen test">Johansen</a></li>
<li><a href="Ljung%E2%80%93Box_test" title="Ljung–Box test">Q-statistic <span style="font-size: 85%;">(Ljung–Box)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Durbin%E2%80%93Watson_statistic" title="Durbin–Watson statistic">Durbin–Watson</a></li>
<li><a href="Breusch%E2%80%93Godfrey_test" title="Breusch–Godfrey test">Breusch–Godfrey</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Time_domain" title="Time domain">Time domain</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Autocorrelation" title="Autocorrelation">Autocorrelation (ACF)</a>
<ul><li><a href="Partial_autocorrelation_function" title="Partial autocorrelation function">partial (PACF)</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Cross-correlation" title="Cross-correlation">Cross-correlation (XCF)</a></li>
<li><a href="Autoregressive%E2%80%93moving-average_model" class="mw-redirect" title="Autoregressive–moving-average model">ARMA model</a></li>
<li><a href="Box%E2%80%93Jenkins_method" title="Box–Jenkins method">ARIMA model <span style="font-size: 85%;">(Box–Jenkins)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Autoregressive_conditional_heteroskedasticity" title="Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity">Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH)</a></li>
<li><a href="Vector_autoregression" title="Vector autoregression">Vector autoregression (VAR)</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Frequency_domain" title="Frequency domain">Frequency domain</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Spectral_density_estimation" title="Spectral density estimation">Spectral density estimation</a></li>
<li><a href="Fourier_analysis" title="Fourier analysis">Fourier analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Least-squares_spectral_analysis" title="Least-squares spectral analysis">Least-squares spectral analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Wavelet" title="Wavelet">Wavelet</a></li>
<li><a href="Whittle_likelihood" title="Whittle likelihood">Whittle likelihood</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:12.5em"><a href="Survival_analysis" title="Survival analysis">Survival</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Survival_function" title="Survival function">Survival function</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Kaplan%E2%80%93Meier_estimator" title="Kaplan–Meier estimator">Kaplan–Meier estimator (product limit)</a></li>
<li><a href="Proportional_hazards_model" title="Proportional hazards model">Proportional hazards models</a></li>
<li><a href="Accelerated_failure_time_model" title="Accelerated failure time model">Accelerated failure time (AFT) model</a></li>
<li><a href="First-hitting-time_model" title="First-hitting-time model">First hitting time</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Failure_rate" title="Failure rate">Hazard function</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Nelson%E2%80%93Aalen_estimator" title="Nelson–Aalen estimator">Nelson–Aalen estimator</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Test</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Log-rank_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Log-rank test">Log-rank test</a></li></ul>
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