Patent ID: 7079993
Filing Date: 2006-07-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A process for producing, from sample data tables, an accurate statistical model, including choice of significant covariates and correlations between model covariates, the process comprising: a. providing a sample data table listing either (a) the recorded occurrences of one of two or more possible events, (b) the recorded number of occurrences of a possible event, and (c) the recorded measurements of a set of variables; b. generating statistical models fitting the sample data table; c. solving for optimal parameters of each statistical model considered; d. using model test statistics and the number of degrees of freedom in each model to assess the suitability of models, to arrive at a complete ordering of the models, and to determine which additional models to build, solve, and test; e. providing a statistical model that has the highest observed ordering, and thus most closely fits the sample data table; f. providing average table values, including the possibility of values in table entries where no sample data occurred, based on that model that attained the highest ordering when fit to the sample data table.