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Mathematical theory of statistics, concerned with formal definitions and general results.

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Randomly Sample M samples from N numbers with replacement, how to estimate N?

Can you estimate $N$ with MLE or method of moment or whatever strategy? $N$ numbered balls are in a bag. $N$ is unknown. Pick a ball uniformly at random, record its number, replace it, shuffle. After …