Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index There are many different ways of discussing statistical estimation... Table of contents 1 Goals 2 Approaches/Philosophies 3 Methods Goals Point estimation Interval estimation multivariate estimation?? Regression/Model building Approaches/Philosophies frequentist, or classical Bayesian estimation fiducial?? Methods (mixture of all of the above) Maximum likelihood estimation Method of moments Least squares Influence functions? Confidence interval (or region) Highest posterior density interval/region Fiducial?? etc... This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.