##  [Empirical Measure](/empirical-measure) 

  ##  [Empirical Measure](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/empirical-measure-0) 

  

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Definition

The atomic probability measure that places equal mass 1/n at each of n observed sample points, typically written μ_n = (1/n)∑_{i=1}^n δ_{x_i}, and serving as a nonparametric estimator of the underlying distribution.