For reasons I no longer remember I decided a while back to reproduce Figure 1.5.2 from Casella and Berger (page… Read more
Category: Discrete distributions
Earthquake data and Benford’s Law
Much has been written about Benford's Law, that weird phenonmenon where if you have a naturally occuring set of numerical… Read more
A Probability Problem in Heredity – Part 2
In my last post I solved a problem from chapter 2 of M.G. Bulmer’s Principles of Statistics. In this post… Read more
Deriving the Poisson Distribution
The Poisson distribution can be derived from the binomial distribution by doing two steps: substitute \( \frac{\mu}{n} \) for p… Read more
How many rolls of a die to see all sides at least once?
Say you have a fair die. (Most of them are these days.) You roll it once and observe a 3…. Read more