Even Large Samples Have Challenges: Rare Events, Gaps, and Tails

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Eric Bax, Charlotte Bax

Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 06 Feb 2025IEEE Big Data 2022EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: if a data set covers a population of interest then statistics can be computed exactly. If it is a sample of the population (or distribution) of interest then statistics must be estimated. We consider conditions for those estimates to be accurate or inaccurate.