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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Today's Slides: April 8
Here they are ... HOMEWORK is on the last three slides ...
Mr K !
ReplyDeleteIn the question "toaster" If I do like this , what is each value mean
binomcdf(2000,0.05)
Actually it doesn't work (maybe because 2000) so I change it to 20.
@CowMilk
ReplyDeletebinomcdf(2000,0.05) will produce a list of 2001 "probabilities." (Remember, we hav e to include the probability 0 toasters fail.)
binom ==> indicates a binomial distribution
cdf ==> Cumulative Distibution Function
2000 ==> total numebr of toasters, those that work AND those that don't
0.05 ==> the probability that any one toaster will fail