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What are meaningful ways to interpret Monte Carlo-simulated non-normal data?

My question relates to Confidence Interval (CI) calculation of Monte Carlo-simulated non-normal data As answers and comments to that question show the confidence interval for the given distribution ...
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Error bars on log of big numbers

I am calculating a quantity of the following form: $\mu = \log( \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=1}^{n} e^{\phi(X_i)} )$ via MC. $X_i$ are iid and I can sample them. I want to give error bars\ confidence ...
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Confidence Interval in Monte Carlo integration

I want to integrate $\int_{\mathbb{R}_+}\mathbb{1}_A(x) d\mathbb{P}(x)$, in other words I am interested in $\mathbb{P}(A)$. I did this numerically with two Monte Carlo steps. First, I drew, say a ...
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