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More about Frequentist and Bayesian analysis can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem

Matter of fact...

    According to conventional Allied intelligence estimates, the Germans 
    were producing around 1,400 tanks a month between June 1940 and September 1942. 

    Applying the formula below to the serial numbers of captured tanks, the number 
    was calculated to be 246 a month. After the war, captured German production 
    figures from the ministry of Albert Speer showed the actual number to be 245.

I was actually surprised that MVUEs and the fellow point estimators are called frequentist (though it makes sense). In school we always referred to them as non-Bayesian, at the same time frequentist always seemed like a dirty word to us students so maybe that's why

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