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Is the mean of samples still a valid sample?
It depends on $n$. In the case where $n = 1$, the sample mean $\bar{x}=x_1$ and trivially matches $p_\theta(x)$ as it is just the single sample.
For specific degenerate distributions, the mean can ...
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