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Refers to data generated from a distribution that has a countable sample space. The discrete data tag may encompass categorical data, whether nominal (e.g. the distribution of race in a sample of individuals) or ordinal (e.g. socio-economic status), or an actual discrete random variate, such as a set of event counts (e.g. the number of errors on a page of text). Discrete data need not necessarily be integer, however.
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How to estimate the probability mass function of a discrete variable from moments
I have worked with this problem a lot, and I cannot find a satisfactory answer, but here are a few ways that I've attacked it.
(1) If $M=k$, and if you know that a valid probability distribution can b …
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