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How to estimate with confidence the quantiles of an unknown random variable using sample mean and variance?
Let $X$ be a uniform distribution of inputs to be used for sampling. Let $f(x)$ be an expensive function. If we take samples from $X$ and give them as input to $f$ we get outputs $y_1, y_2, \ldots, ...
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How many people initially had apples?
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Assume 10 apples are distributed across $X$ unknown people, where each person has at least one apple. For each apple a biased coin is flipped to see if that apple should be kept or ...
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Nonparametric expected value estimation of sample from unknown distribution
I have a data sample (in this case an EEG data sample, but my question refers to any type of data samples of prior unknown distributions).
I would like to do a nonparametric estimate of the expected ...
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