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point estimate
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point estimate
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(Mathematics & Measurements / Statistics) Statistics a specific value assigned to a parameter of a population on the basis of sampling statistics Compare interval estimate


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Nonetheless, the point estimates and their probabilities can be a reasonably good approximation of what is known as a continuous probability distribution, especially if there are enough of them.
Table 1 gives the distribution of lower and upper bounds for uncertain respondents and point estimates for certain respondents.
a,2005] would be estimated during the assessment, but SEDAR (2006) provided only point estimates.
 
 
 
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