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Think of it this way: With 10^21 samples, you can be pretty certain that your sample mean will be the theoretical one.
by auntienomen 8y ago
Think of it this way: With 10^21 samples, you can be pretty certain that your sample mean will be the theoretical one.
- yorwba 8y agoThe absolute error will be low, but the relative error can still be high. E.g. if you're dealing with events that have a frequency of 1 in 2 million, then 1 million samples can't have exactly 0.5 occurrences, so the relative error is at least 100%.