# Chapter 4: Classical Statistical Inference

This chapter develops the classical or “frequentist” approach to statistics.


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astroml_chapter4_Maximum_Likelihood_Estimation_and_Goodness_of_fit
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astroml_chapter4_Confidence_estimates
astroml_chapter4_Hypothesis_testing
astroml_chapter4_Comparison_of_distributions
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