In statistics, efficiency is a term used in the comparison of various statistical procedures and, in particular, it refers to a measure of the optimality of an estimator, of an experimental design or of an hypothesis testing procedure. Essentially, a more efficient estimator, experiment or test needs fewer samples than a less efficient one to achieve a given performance.
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Robust statistics
Robust statistics provides an alternative approach to standard statistical methods, such as those for estimating location, scale and regression parameters. The motivation is to produce estimators that are not unduly affected by small departures from the model assumptions under which these standard methods are usually derived: the standard methods are comparatively badly affected.
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Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal. A computer program that runs in a distributed system is called a distributed program, and distributed programming is the process of writing such programs.
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