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Article #456Re: approx. of binomial dist., help needed
From: Charles Packer
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 10:55
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 10:55
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In article <1992Oct7.025857.28031@news2.cis.umn.edu>, lee@hecto.cs.umn.edu (YoungJun Lee) writes... > What's np of moderate magnitude ? How about: use the Poisson when np is "much less" than the square root of n? This is from a chapter I photocopied out of a book years ago, for which I don't have title/author, sorry. The reference doesn't define what "much less" is, though.
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