nuisance parameter
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A parameter of the distribution of a population that is not directly relevant to solving the significance test or estimate problem under consideration.
Example Sentences
- "[T]esting for the null hypothesis […] is subject to the problem of a nuisance parameter that is present only under the alternative, which makes standard asymptotic inference invalid[.]"
- "For instance, applications require to specify the number of hidden layers [of a neural network], the number of neurons, the form of the activation function, the algorithm, as well as associated nuisance parameters used for training the models."