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How can you evaluate the representativeness of a sample for a given distribution?
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I am looking for a metric to find the representativeness of a sample for a given distribution, being the representativeness of a random sample as the degree of capacity of the sample to ...
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Theory related to choosing high-information representative samples of a distribution
Let $X$ be a random variable of human height and suppose that $X$ is normally distributed.
If our goal is to select 'representatives' of the concept 'height', a reasonable way to choose representative ...
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Select a sample size form the infinite population
I have a list of every store chain in the US with at least 100 locations in the US.
a) What number of those do I have to pick in order to have a representative sample of the number of locations across ...
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Questions on population and sample
As someone new to statistics, I had a debate with my supervisor today on the definition of population and sample in the following case.
Suppose we track all new users (1,000 in total) that used an ...
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