Eachtimeapersonshopsatagrocerystore,theeventofcatchingacoldorsomeothervirus from anothershopperisindependentfromvisittovisitandhasaconstantprobabilityoverthe year,equalto0.01. (a) In100 trips tothisstoreoverthecourseofayear,theprobabilityofcatchingavirus while shoppingthereis100(0.01)=1.0.Whatiswrongwiththisreasoning? (b) Findthecorrectprobabilityin(a).
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Eachtimeapersonshopsatagrocerystore,theeventofcatchingacoldorsomeothervirus from anothershopperisindependentfromvisittovisitandhasaconstantprobabilityoverthe year,equalto0.01.
(a) In100 trips tothisstoreoverthecourseofayear,theprobabilityofcatchingavirus while shoppingthereis100(0.01)=1.0.Whatiswrongwiththisreasoning?
(b) Findthecorrectprobabilityin(a).
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Foundations Of Statistics For Data Scientists With R And Python
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Authors: Alan Agresti
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