Empirical distribution function
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In statistics, an empirical distribution function is a cumulative probability distribution function that concentrates probability 1/n at each of the n numbers in a sample.
Let 
be random variables with realizations
.
The empirical distribution function
based on sample 
is a step function defined by
where I(A) is an indicator function.
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