Fundamental limitation on applicability of statistical methods to study of living organisms and other complex systems

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0252-5MaRDI QIDQ637527zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yitzhak Rabin

Publication date 6 September 2011

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-011-0252-5

zbMATH Keywords

complex systemGaussian distributionhidden variableliving organismstatistical independence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35) General biostatistics (92B15)

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