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One of the great ideas in data analysis is to base probability statements on large-sample approximations, which are often easy to obtain either analytically or numerically.
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There are exceptions to this rule if the expectation does not exist, which can occur when the tails of the pdf fall to zero very slowly. An example is the Cauchy distribution, which is the \(t\) distribution on 1 degree of freedom.
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Kass, R.E., Eden, U.T., Brown, E.N. (2014). Sequences of Random Variables. In: Analysis of Neural Data. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9602-1_6
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