Critical Thinking: Brain Teaser A requirement for using the normal distribution to approximate the p distribution is
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Critical Thinking: Brain Teaser A requirement for using the normal distribution to approximate the pˆ distribution is that both np 5 and nq 5.
Since we usually do not know p, we estimate p by pˆ and q by qˆ 5 1 pˆ. Then we require that npˆ 5 and nqˆ 5.
Show that the conditions npˆ 5 and nqˆ 5 are equivalent to the condition that out of n binomial trials, both the number of successes r and the number of failures n r must exceed 5.
Hint:
In the inequality npˆ 5, replace pˆ by r/n and solve for r. In the inequality nqˆ 5, replace qˆ by n r /n and solve for n r.
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Understanding Basic Statistics
ISBN: 9781305548893
7th Edition
Authors: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase
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