ABSTRACT

Which modeling and which estimator shall I use? Eternal questions of the statistician when facing data.

The first step is to write down a statistical model suited to analyze the data. This step requires some deep discussions with the specialists of the field where the data come from, some basic data mining to detect some possible key features of the data, and some,... experience. This process is crucial for the subsequent work, yet it seems hardly amenable to a theorization.