http://mathforum.org/kb List of forum topics en http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7927276&tstart=0#7927276 ]]> Nov 23, 2012 6:46:54 PM Nov 23, 2012 6:46:54 PM br74545@yahoo.com 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7927252&tstart=0#7927252 > Apologies. Let me give the full context:
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> If we assume the underlying]]> Nov 23, 2012 5:33:21 PM Nov 23, 2012 5:33:21 PM Nick.Spam@yahoo.co.uk 1 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7927071&tstart=0#7927071
If we assume the underlying probability of a discrete random variable y is binomial, we have:]]> Nov 23, 2012 9:37:21 AM Nov 23, 2012 9:37:21 AM br74545@yahoo.com 2 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7927070&tstart=0#7927070 > Hi,
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> I read in a stats textbook that this equation:
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>]]> Nov 23, 2012 4:26:53 AM Nov 23, 2012 4:26:53 AM Nick.Spam@yahoo.co.uk 3 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7927006&tstart=0#7927006
I read in a stats textbook that this equation:

[y*theta^(y-1)]-(n-y)*(theta^y)(1-theta)^(n-y-1)

can be simplified to:]]> Nov 23, 2012 12:19:39 AM Nov 23, 2012 12:19:39 AM br74545@yahoo.com 4