John Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> re: the formula:
>
>       n       = (Z?/e)2

This formula hasn't come over at all well.  Please note that newsgroups
work in ascii. What's it supposed to look like? What's it a formula for?

> could you express E as a  % of a standard deviation .

What's E? The above formula doesn't have a (capital) E.

What is Z? n? e?

> In other words does a .02 error translate into .02/1 standard deviations,
> assuming you are dealing w/a normal distribution?

? How does this relate to the formula above?

Glen



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