In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Timothy W. Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I also think Alan's idea is sound. I start my students off with some
>binomial expansion theory.
Giving not the formulas for the standard distributions
but what types of problems result in these is good.
But I believe it is important to start out with what
happens when those "equally likely" or other simplifying
assumptions are not met. Students seem to have little
difficulty in working with equally likely or identically
distributed; it is when these are not the case that they
seem unable to cope.
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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