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A distribution is a mathematical description of probabilities or frequencies.

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Estimating the distribution of a very large population of known size and unknown variance

Since the empirical distribution function of the sample should converge to the true population distribution function as the sample size approaches the population size, it seems to me that best estimat …
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What distribution function might describe the following statistical experiments?

Your data describe how long it took before some event takes place, but with some overhead such that the event will never take place before some time $t$. Look into a shifted negative binomial distribu …
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