Timeline for Estimating the Distribution of a Very Large Population of Known Size and Unknown Variance
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| Jun 20, 2011 at 18:00 | comment | added | Misha | @Pierre Nyquist: It's not that I want to see the distribution over a set of distinct "places." You are right that I want to directly estimate the density function. I was actually wondering if Kernel density estimation might be a possibility but how do I know how large my sample size should be? If I use that approach, what can I say about the correctness of my estimation? | |
| Jun 20, 2011 at 11:06 | comment | added | Pierre | Now that I read it again - is the problem to investigate the distribution of the population over a set of distinct "places" (such as nodes in a lattice or similar)? | |
| Jun 20, 2011 at 9:18 | history | answered | Pierre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |