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The study of collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data.

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Approximate a distribution function from a finite sample

Kernel density estimation is a good suggestion. Another option is to construct the empirical CDF and then seek the distribution that best fits. Depending on the form of your output this might be more …
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Sampling from posterior predictive distribution

I believe the best (only?) way to accomplish this will be through Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain_Monte_Carlo This will allow you to sample from the unkn …
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