18.443 Statistics for Applications
by
Mit Opencourseware
,
R. M. Dudley
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@MISC{Opencourseware_18.443statistics,
author = {Mit Opencourseware and R. M. Dudley},
title = {18.443 Statistics for Applications},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
First, here is some notation for binomial probabilities. Let X be the number of successes in n independent trials with probability p of success on each trial. Let q ≡ 1−p. Then we know that EX = np, the variance of X is npq where q = 1 − p, and so the
