Timeline for How can one quantify the convergence of relative frequency to probability?
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| Mar 23, 2018 at 13:42 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | By the way, the best place for such a question may be stats.stackexchange.com. | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 13:42 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Of course you can never be sure of knowing the probability up to an uncertainty of $\epsilon$ - there is always a chance that you get unlucky and have far more (or less) successes than you "should". You can have high probability of being close, and that's what concentration inequalities like Chebyshev can quantify. In statistics, people like to think of this concept in terms of confidence intervals. | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 12:07 | answer | added | Gerald Edgar | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Mar 23, 2018 at 8:31 | history | asked | Bettina Kraus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |