In Chapter 15, we focused on estimating the mean and variance of a distribution given observed samples. In this chapter and the next, we look at the more general question of statistical inference, where this time we are estimating the parameter(s) of a distribution or some other quantity. We will continue to use the notation for estimators given in Definition 15.1.
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