Data generating process
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The term data generating process is used in statistical
and scientific literature to convey a number of different ideas:
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
and scientific literature to convey a number of different ideas:
- the data collectionData collectionData collection is a term used to describe a process of preparing and collecting data, for example, as part of a process improvement or similar project. The purpose of data collection is to obtain information to keep on record, to make decisions about important issues, to pass information on to...
process, being routes and procedures by which data reach a database (particularly where these may change over time); - a specific statistical modelStatistical modelA statistical model is a formalization of relationships between variables in the form of mathematical equations. A statistical model describes how one or more random variables are related to one or more random variables. The model is statistical as the variables are not deterministically but...
that is being used to represent supposed random variations in observations, often in terms of explanatory and/or latent variables - a notional and non-specific probabilistic model (not directly described or explicitly set down) that would include all of the random influences that combine together to lead to individual observations, where one instance would be the supposed justification of the "common occurrence" of the normal distribution in terms of a combination of multiple random additive effects.