Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] statistical inference

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I've been gone a few days - that's why I haven't been answering.

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
> > > What model are you using?  It must be some sort of multinomial.
> >
> >
> > Yes, its a big multinomial.
>
>
> Maybe part of the problem is that you have to distinguish between the 
> multinomial and the multivariate hypergeometric.  Your distribution 
> really should be multivariate hypergeometric and not multinomial.  The 
> difference is that the multivariate hypergeometric is sampling without 
> replacement while the multinomial is sampling with replacement.

You assume that the sample size is much smaller than the population 
size, thus sampling with replacement is a very close approximation to 
what is happening.


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