Timeline for How to sample from a distribution with discrete variables with a known average?
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| Mar 20, 2023 at 22:01 | vote | accept | adkane | ||
| Mar 20, 2023 at 15:41 | comment | added | Tim | @adkane keep in mind it's just an example. Using an implausible distribution there would be equally wrong as using a constant. | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 14:50 | comment | added | adkane | Huge thanks for your detailed reply and R code to boot. The fact that the mean in your first example isn't exactly equal to the value is ok for my purposes, all of these estimates are approximates. Your second approach seems more biologically meaningful though because it doesn't force there to be four animals. | |
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| Mar 20, 2023 at 13:44 | history | answered | Tim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |