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We can compare discrete and continuous data by looking at how water comes out of a tap. A dripping tap shows discrete data, because each individual drop can be counted. The data collected will simply ...

Classifying a variable as a particular type of data is important when considering how to present the data. Data can be presented in a number of ways, which depends on the type of variable and the uses ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 32, No. 3 (1983), pp. 260-266 (7 pages) One practical drawback to the use of discrimination methods based on the location ...

The TEST statement is required. It identifies statistical tests to be performed and the discrete and continuous variables to be tested. The following tests are permitted as name in the TEST statement.

This paper develops a method to efficiently estimate hidden Markov models with continuous latent variables using maximum likelihood estimation. To evaluate the (marginal) likelihood function, I ...

The benchmark tests show that the noise-free realization of QA can significantly outperform state-of-the-art classical algorithms. Quantum annealing (QA) is a cutting-edge algorithm that leverages the ...