Poisson Approximation to Binomial The Poisson distribution can be used to approximate a binomial distribution if n

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Poisson Approximation to Binomial The Poisson distribution can be used to approximate a binomial distribution if n  100 and np # 10. Assume that we have a binomial distribution with n 5 100 and p 5 0.1. It is impossible to get 101 successes in such a binomial distribution, but we can compute the probability that x 5 101 with the Poisson approximation. Find that value. How does the result agree with the impossibility of having x 5 101 with a binomial distribution?

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Elementary Statistics

ISBN: 9780201775709

9th Edition

Authors: Mario F. Triola

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