Procedures for estimating the probability distributions without supposing any particular functional form. Constructing the histogram is perhaps the easiest example of such type of estimation, and kernel density estimators give a more sophisticated approach. Density estimates can provide valuable indication of such features as skewness and the multi- modality in the data.

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