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Re:Generating Random Numbers from a Specific Distribution by... by d-sc on Monday August 07, 2017 @12:27AM (#14945303)
I'm curious if you could elaborate on this more. What other probably techniques would you recommend knowing?
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Re:Generating Random Numbers from a Specific Distribution by... by tempay on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:28AM (#14947674)
I'd recommend knowing about bootstrapping[1], there must be simpler articles but the basic idea is to randomly sample with replacement to generate new datasets which can then be used to test the variation of properties of the original dataset.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)

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