Premium
Discussion
Author(s) -
Hunter David R.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international statistical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.051
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1751-5823
pISSN - 0306-7734
DOI - 10.1111/insr.12027
Subject(s) - computer science , focus (optics) , matching (statistics) , point (geometry) , mathematics , statistics , physics , geometry , optics
The paper by Lange, Chi and Zhou (hereafter ‘the authors’) serves not only as a useful reminder about the importance of optimization techniques in implementing modern statistical methods but also as a collection of various techniques along with citations for further study. The authors point out that it is useful to be able to ‘mix and match’ these techniques. My brief comments will focus on a few aspects of this mixing and matching.