Then we repeat perhaps 50 or 100 times the entire experiment described above. Each of those 50 or 100 experimental trials represents a single sample. When we have collected evidence for 50 or 100 experimental samples, we determine the proportion of the experimental days on which four or more mussels are muckets. That proportion estimates for us the probability that four or more mussels are muckets in a given sample -- the answer we seek. This procedure is an example of the resampling method of statistical estimation.
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