Re: help, a simple problem

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From: Ben
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:00

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so you can get it down for your assignment.... right?

Jon Dodd <jvd@physiol.ox.ac.uk> wrote in article
<36052C4E.A697E07@physiol.ox.ac.uk>...
> Hi,
> 
> Please could you help me with this simple problem.
> 
> From a normal distribution with mean m and standard deviation sd,  I
> pick a random sample A and then second B. If A>B then the value of A is
> assigned to group X, if B>A then value of A is assigned to group Y. What
> is the resulting mean and standard deviation of the two distributions X
> and Y? I am not mathamatically oriented so a step by step proof would be
> great.
> 
> many thanks
> Jon
> 
> 
>

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Subject: Re: help, a simple problem
Date: 1998/09/21
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