{"articles":{"pivotal-statistic@computational-statistical-methods":{"content":"<p>A pivotal statistic is a statistic whose distribution is always the same for all values of \\(\\theta\\).</p><p>These statistics we cannot actually compute, because they depend on the unknown parameter value. But by doing some algrebra, they allow us to easily create confidence intervals and tests.</p>","names":[[["Pivotal quantity",""]," ","of ","\\(\\theta\\)"]]}},"style":"Notion"}