At 07:34 AM 2/19/02 -0500, Herman Rubin wrote: >I do not see this. The binomial distribution is a natural >one; the normal distribution, while it has lots of mathematical >properties, is not.
i don't know of any "distribution" that is natural ... what does that mean? inherent in the universe? all distributions are human made ... in the sense that WE observe events ... and, find some function that links events to probabilities all of mathematics ... and statistics too as an offshoot ... is made up Dennis Roberts, 208 Cedar Bldg., University Park PA 16802 <Emailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm AC 8148632401 ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
