Timeline for Techniques to sample skewed distributions
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| Aug 2, 2017 at 15:04 | vote | accept | add-semi-colons | ||
| Jul 30, 2017 at 14:18 | answer | added | RoryT | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 27, 2017 at 23:26 | comment | added | whuber♦ | (1) Why do you want to do this? (2) What methods do you have available to obtain samples for this population? | |
| Jul 27, 2017 at 21:09 | comment | added | add-semi-colons | lets say we have long tail where large number of occurrences in the head (Salary) large number of users have low income. Doing a random sample will give us more users from the head. What I meant by balance mean get a equal or normal distribution after sampling. | |
| S Jul 27, 2017 at 20:40 | history | suggested | mkt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed a confusing typo & made minor grammatical edits.
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| Jul 27, 2017 at 20:06 | comment | added | whuber♦ | Please explain what you might mean by a "balance sample." Normally, when one "samples" from a population, one takes each element with equal probability--and it makes no difference how skewed the data might be. | |
| Jul 27, 2017 at 19:53 | history | asked | add-semi-colons | CC BY-SA 3.0 |