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Category Theory and Statistics
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In category theory, a functor is a mapping between categories that preserves the structure of the categories. What is the statistical analog of a functor?
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A statistical model
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A statistical model is a mathematical representation of a random phenomenon, and it can be viewed as a functor from the category of possible outcomes to the category of probability distributions.