... Archives . ... I asked a couple of astronomers if they heard the term plug-in estimator and none of them gave me a positive answer. ... Whilst clarifying the form of sampling distribution, or on verifying the formulas or estimators of sample mean and sample variance truly match with true mean and true variance, I can drop plug-in part because I know asymptotically such interval (estimator) will cover 68%. ... Category: Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Jargon , Uncertainty | ...