On 2 Des, 19:45, glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Rune Allnor <all...@tele.ntnu.no> wrote:
> > - Data analysis is on topic wrt comp.dsp.
> > - The use of computational models is on topic wrt comp.dsp.
> > - The quality and suitability of the computational models
> > *used in model-based data analysis is on topic wrt comp.dsp.
> > - The consequenses of using inferior model-based data analyis
> > *tools is on topic wrt comp.dsp.
> > - The (in)competence of analysts and decision makers who
> > *dabble with model-based data analysis, is on topic wrt
> > *comp.dsp.
>
> Technically, I would say that only the second one is on topic.
> The lack of comp.asp allows for the first. *(That is, data analysis
> could be either analog or digital.)

Most data analysis under the realm DSP treat digitized
data that somehow originate in an analog domain.

> *The third is probably close
> enough for most.

DSP is stuffed with models like AR, ARMA, sum-of-sines,
LTI... The whole subject of DSP have to do with knowing
the properties of the different models, and choosing
which one to use.

>*The fourth and fifth might be commonly discussed
> here, but that doesn't mean that they are on topic.

Those are trivial corollaries from the item immediately
above, about knowing what models (not) to use, and why.

Rune