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		timewizard 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machi... You estimated. This is not at all a "count."

eirikbakke 35 days ago [–]

With one extra step, you could get a lower bound with very high confidence. Just take a random sample (N=100) of the detected objects, and determine manually what percentage are really yurts. Then multiply that percentage by the number of detected objects.

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