Talk:Statistical interference

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In the course of reviewing this article I looked through fifty or sixty titles of articles that deal with "statistical interference". I did find quite a few references to this more or less traditional view of process control and "statistical interference". However, most of the references dealt with signal processing, with many pointing to modern innovations like CDMA multiplexing.

I don't understand that stuff well enough to write anything easily, but if somebody else who does understand it runs across this article, it might be nice to work in some explanation of what "statistical interference" means in the context of communications theory. DavidCBryant 15:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What?

This article begins as follows:

When two probability distributions overlap,

Based, not on that, but on the illustrations, I am guessing that it means the supports of the two distributions intersect. But I shouldn't have to guesss.

Then it says

This technique

But it hasn't mentioned any technique.

The paragraph that follows is extremely vague, as if no attempt has been made to be clear about the mathematics involved. What is the "derived distribution"? Is it the distribution of the difference between two random variables? If so, it's easy to say that explicitly. Michael Hardy (talk) 20:30, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]