1.) I have data points for a bubble chart of age vs weight [[‘<15 yr’, 30], [‘<25 yr’, 60], …]
2.) I also have 4 or 5 canned models for overweight population, malnutrition, etc.
How to tell (programmatically) if a given set of data matches any of the pre-determined models.
What specific math or statistics literature I need to look for direction.
In statistics this is usually studied using a Goodness of fit test. Any good statistics book should cover this topic. This question might be a good candidate for stats.stackexchange.com