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Sample size determination or estimation is the act of choosing the number of observations or replicates to include in a statistical sample. The sample size is an important feature of any empirical study in which the goal is to make inferences about a population from a sample.
Given a sample set, one can compute the studentized residuals and compare these to the expected frequency: points that fall more than 3 standard deviations from the norm are likely outliers (unless the sample size is significantly large, by which point one expects a sample this extreme), and if there are many points more than 3 standard ...
[b] This is done by polynomial-time reduction from 3-SAT to the other problem. An example of a problem where this method has been used is the clique problem: given a CNF formula consisting of c clauses, the corresponding graph consists of a vertex for each literal, and an edge between each two non-contradicting [c] literals from different ...
The first row shows the possible p-values as a function of the number of blue and red dots in the sample. Although the 30 samples were all simulated under the null, one of the resulting p-values is small enough to produce a false rejection at the typical level 0.05 in the absence of correction.
A seventh order polynomial function was fit to the training data. In the right column, the function is tested on data sampled from the underlying joint probability distribution of x and y. In the top row, the function is fit on a sample dataset of 10 datapoints. In the bottom row, the function is fit on a sample dataset of 100 datapoints.
For example, for a Gaussian distribution with unknown mean and variance, the jointly sufficient statistic, from which maximum likelihood estimates of both parameters can be estimated, consists of two functions, the sum of all data points and the sum of all squared data points (or equivalently, the sample mean and sample variance).
Each observation plots against its own control limits as determined by the sample size-specific values, n i, of A 3, B 3, and B 4: Use control limits based on an average sample size [7] Control limits are fixed at the modal (or most common) sample size-specific value of A 3, B 3, and B 4
In others words, the sample complexity (,,) defines the rate of consistency of the algorithm: given a desired accuracy and confidence , one needs to sample (,,) data points to guarantee that the risk of the output function is within of the best possible, with probability at least .