Vijay Arya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hello, > > I have the following problem. > > ----------------------------- > > A user T has a coin with head or tails and we want to estimate the > probability of head. > > when user A goes to T, he tosses the coin Na times giving a binary 1010... > trace (1=heads, 0=tails). > > when user B goes to T, he tosses the coin Nb times giving a binary > 1010...trace (1=heads, 0=tails). > > Now, > > A takes the mean Mua = (1+0+1+...)/Na (essentially the probability of > heads) > > B does the same, Mub = (1+0+1....)/Nb > > I want to test the hypothesis > > H0: Mua not equals Mub > H1: Mua equals Mub
Your hypotheses are the wrong way around. > I wanted to know if this falls under "inference from two > dependent or independent samples" Can you describe a way in which you think that the observations from the two samples might be dependent? Glen . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
