When you get--this is Rituparna, counting the leaves on a tree-- you can estimate, from a sample, the population expected values.

如果你...像数叶子的睿都巴若那一样,只有部分样本的话,你可以来估计总体均值

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You've got a sample of it on your handout.

你们手上的讲稿里有一份这首诗。

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One is in the U.S.at the Centers for Disease Control, where there is a sample of variola, which is kept, you know, frozen on ice in a heavily guarded facility.

一个在美国的疾病控制中心,那有一支天花病毒的样本,冰冻后置于重重保护之下

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One person might be a little low one day, another person might be high, a lot of people might-- you might happen to have captured them on an average day, but overall it averages out, so you get a representative sample.

一个人可能某一天少吃些,另一个人可能多吃些,很多人都会这样,你可能正好得出人们,平均每天的摄入量,但把它的整体平均一下,就得到有代表性的结果

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