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This is the “German tank problem”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem?wprov=sfti...
by clickety_clack 3mo ago
This is the “German tank problem”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem?wprov=sfti...
- senderista 3mo agoNo, it's not the same as the German tank problem, because that assumes all sampled values are unique (and totally ordered). It's closer to the "species richness" estimation problem, where you estimate the total number of species from a sample (specimens) with many repeated values (species).
- clickety_clack 3mo agoAh, you’re right! The German tank problem was based on reading the serial numbers I think.