Re: [R] What distribution is related to hypergeometric?

2008-09-25 Thread Ted Byers
> I have weekly samples of two kinds of events: call them A and B. I have a count of A events. These > change dramatically from one week to the next. I also have weekly counts > of B events that I can relate > to A events. Some fraction 'lambda' (between 1 and 1) of A events will > result in

[R] What distribution is related to hypergeometric?

2008-09-25 Thread Ted Byers
I have been reading, in various sources, that a poisson distribution is related to binomial, extending the idea to include numbers of events in a given period of time. In my case, the hypergeometric distribution seems more appropriate, but I need a temporal dimension to the distribution. I have