| Article ID: | iaor19911135 |
| Country: | Belgium |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Start Page Number: | 181 |
| End Page Number: | 203 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1990 |
| Journal: | Cahiers du Centre d'tudes de Recherche Oprationnelle |
| Authors: | Lemaire-Misonne Catherine |
| Keywords: | perturbation analysis |
A general notion of conditioning is introduced. Then, some particular aspects arising in Statistics and Data Analysis are examined. The notion of conditionning is fundamental for the statistician, due to its incidence on the result’s validity, independently of numerical computations, as it deals with a measure of the solution’s sensitivity with respect to ‘small’ perturbations of the data.