How do I work with NoisyPQC and shot noise in Tensorflow Quantum?

General Discussion
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I’ve been wanting to implement shot noise into my code, using tfq.layers.NoisyPQC.
The documentation says as follows:

 tfq.layers.NoisyPQC(
    circuit,
    cirq.Z(q),
    repetitions=1000,
    sample_based=False
)

In the above example we estimate the value of the expectation using monte-carlo trajectory simulations and analytic expectation calculation. To emulate the process used when sampling from a truly noisy device, we set sampled_based=True to estimate the expectation value via noisy bitstring sampling.

Now, I interpreted the NoisyPQC as if the repetitions were shots, because that is what the repetitions are for the regular PQC, according to its documentation. But, when I look at the documentation on the NoisyPQC, it looks as if ‘sample_based’ needs to be True to do shots. In that case, I do not know what the repetitions do when sample_based =False? The NoisyPQC does not function with repetitions = None.

My question is, would I be able to simulate shot noise when I set sampled_based=True, and is the number of repetitions than the shot
number? I find it hard to say for certain based on the documentation.