Meanings
- not comparableNot of or relating to statistics.
It is hard to understand why there is so much emphasis on least squares approaches even in graduate courses for nonstatistics majors as this narrow approach comes at the expense of the much more general and useful likelihood methods.
2007, David Raymond Anderson, Model Based Inference in the Life Sciences: A Primer on Evidence
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