John Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message MGns7.49824$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:MGns7.49824$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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 ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================