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ronny fisherU.S.
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general questions on probability and statistics. please do not send intro prob/stat homework questions. |
tetsu - there is no magic sample size that works for all situations. what constitutes an adequate sample size depends on the kind of data to be analyzed and the assumptions made about the probabilistic
tahsin - it seems to me your investigation involves an experiment with [multivariate] 4x10 responses. each panelist's "response" has the form of a 4x10 2-factor design, the factors being cakes and
wing - first off - thank you for the blessing. now - as regarding your first question: your situation is similar [in the abstract] to that of a clinic administering TB tests. sometimes the test
chun - your answer looks ok to me. sometimes one does not have the capability to preselect from the two populations. [imagine people showing up at a clinic to have a TB test. one might get a more
edmund - just one point for now: in case 1, if either A or B [or both] are random [and independent] and if either [or both] are drawn from a continuous distribution - such as the exponential, one

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