On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Philip Ackerman wrote:
>I am looking through a introductory statistics book, and I have a
> question regarding the binomial distribution. Is this distribution a
> sampling distribution?
The short answer is "Yes". That is, the binomial distribution
b(k;n,p) des
Hello,
I am looking through a introductory statistics book, and I have a
question regarding the binomial distribution. Is this distribution a
sampling distribution? That is, suppose we take all possible samples of size
n from a population, calculate the number of successes in each sample, and
In sci.stat.consult Gordon D. Pusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Don't do it that way either --- it's notoriously ill-conditioned.
: It's better and more numerically stable to use the singular-value
: decomposition of 'A' to solve this problem.
It's NOT ill-conditioned unless the X'X matrix is
I would like to know the formula used in Microsoft Excel to compute the
percentiles.
Thanks,
Jineshwar Singh
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