home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!mojo.eng.umd.edu!mimsy!kong!nsisrv!amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov!packer
- From: packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: approx. of binomial dist., help needed
- Message-ID: <8OCT199206555965@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 8 Oct 92 10:55:00 GMT
- References: <1992Oct7.025857.28031@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Sender: usenet@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Usenet)
- Distribution: all
- Organization: Dept. of Independence
- Lines: 8
- News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1
- Nntp-Posting-Host: amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov
-
- 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.
-