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How many boxes have balls?
I have N boxes, each of which may or may not contain a ball. I want to know how many boxes have balls by sampling the boxes in the following way.
For each box in the N boxes:
I open this box with ...
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Calculating the error or variance in $p$ when fitting a binomial distribution to data
I have data fitting a binomial distribution with $n$ total observations and m positive observations. My estimate of $p$ is $\frac{m}{n}$, but is there a way I can estimate the error or variance in $p$?...
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Distribution of the sample mean of a binomial distribution with prior information
Let's say that there is a finite population of $N$ elements which are either $A$ or $B$ (equivalently this could be a binomial random variable with $N$ repetitions and unknown $P(A)=\theta$).
If I ...
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