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Estimating the Missing Mass, Partition Function or Evidence for a Case of Sampling from a Discrete Set
Bastiaan J. Braams
We consider the problem of estimating the missing mass, partition function or evidence and its probability distribution in the case that for each sample point in the discrete sampl…
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A Better Linear Unbiased Estimator for Averages over Discrete Structures
Bastiaan J. Braams
Given an i.i.d. sample drawn from some probability distribution on a finite set, the best (in the sense of least variance) linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) of the average of any qu…