Dale Glaser wrote:
>
> Hi there..I have scoured my admittedly limited collection of probability
> texts, and am stumped to find the answer to the following, so any help is
> most appreciateda colleague just approached me with the following
> problem at work: he wants to know the number of p
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Dale Glaser wrote in part:
> a colleague just approached me with the following problem at
> work: he wants to know the number of possible combinations of boxes,
> with repeats being viable...so, e.g,. if there are 3 boxes then
> what he wants to get at is the follow
On 1 May 2001 15:43:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Glaser)
wrote:
>Hi there..I have scoured my admittedly limited collection of probability
>texts, and am stumped to find the answer to the following, so any help is
>most appreciateda colleague just approached me with the following
>problem
Dale Glaser wrote:
> Hi there..I have scoured my admittedly limited collection of probability
> texts, and am stumped to find the answer to the following, so any help is
> most appreciateda colleague just approached me with the following
> problem at work: he wants to know the number of possi
let's see ... there is a population of 3 different items ... boxes, people,
colors, whatever ... right?
it appears to me that the problem you are presenting is the following:
let's say you take 3 elements, at random and WITH REPLACEMENT, from a
population (with 3 distinct elements)
you take o
Hi there..I have scoured my admittedly limited collection of probability
texts, and am stumped to find the answer to the following, so any help is
most appreciateda colleague just approached me with the following
problem at work: he wants to know the number of possible combinations of
boxes, w
