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If you know the type of distribution but not the parameters,you can sometimes go through the data once and estimate the parameter (maybe exactly) without "stor
by zodiac 7y ago
If you know the type of distribution but not the parameters,you can sometimes go through the data once and estimate the parameter (maybe exactly) without "storing the distribution" via histograms. Eg if you know the data is drawn from a uniform distribution U(a,b) but you don't know a or b.
- repsilat 7y agoMaybe this goes without saying, but for a fixed accuracy the number of samples required to estimate the distribution parameters does not depend on the number of samples available. Maybe if you need to sort more samples you need more accuracy, though.