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We have now seen how to analyze events by means of statistical models. Next, we are going to discover that all statistical observations can be analyzed as events. Even the record of a theoretically continuous variable, such as the weight of a person at a given point in time, is an event, and a discrete one at that, because any instrument can only measure to a finite precision.
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(1997). Fitting and Comparing Probability Distributions. In: Applying Generalized Linear Models. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-22730-6_3
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