Complex sentence: In the statistical theory of estimation, the German tank problem involves estimating the maximum of a discrete uniform distribution from sampling without replacement, due to its application in World War II to the estimation of the number of German tanks.
Split into simpler sentences: In the statistical theory of estimation, the German tank problem involves estimating the maximum of a discrete uniform distribution from sampling without replacement. It is named from its application in World War II to the estimation of the number of German tanks.