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sample point

American

noun

Mathematics.

a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.

sample point British

noun

statistics a single possible observed value of a variable; a member of the sample space of an experiment

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The basic idea is to chop the parameter domain into small pieces, choose a sample point in each piece, and so on.

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