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For a humorous take on what can be done with a sample size of 1: http://www.thebigalientheory.com http://www.thebigalientheory.com Certainly, any new informat

For a humorous take on what can be done with a sample size of 1: http://www.thebigalientheory.com http://www.thebigalientheory.com Certainly, any new information is going to radically adjust the posterior probabilities, but you can still make some tentative inferences.

rocqua 8y ago
A quick scan didn't reveal my favorite sample size 1 statistic. If you sample serial numbers starting from 1 and sample N, the best guess is that there are 2N examples. This was worked out in WW II for estimating tank production.