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Old 03-04-2003, 12:21 AM
BruceZ BruceZ is offline
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Default Re: What do you think?

Is your reception of AA/KK normally distributed? Isn't it binomially distributed?


Yes it is binomially distributed, but Homer Simpson has answered question 1 correctly. The standard deviation he computes as sqrt (3700*.00905*(1-.00905)) = 5.76 is the standard deviation of the normal distribution which is correctly used to approximate this binomial distribution. This is different from the standard deviation of the binomial distribution itself which is just sqrt(3700*.00905).
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