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The general setting in statistics is that we observe some data and then try to infer some property of the underlying distribution behind this data. The underlying distribution behind the data is unknown and represented by random variable (r.v.) X. This chapter will briefly introduce the general concept of estimators, focusing on estimators for the mean and variance.
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