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Making Great Estimates with Little Data

Get the “feel” for the right answer to seemingly intractable problems by using the approach of theoretical physicist Enrico Fermi: break the problem into easy steps and come up with an order-of-magnitude (factor of 10) estimate. Next, learn a statistical approach to problems that obey a normal distribution, using bell curves to get a surprising amount of information from relatively little data.

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  • Production Company United States The Great Courses
  • Created April 25, 2022 by
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  • Modified June 25, 2023 by
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