Loose-leaf For Applied Statistics In Business And Economics
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Author: David Doane, Lori Seward Senior Instructor of Operations Management
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Chapter 6, Problem 9CR
(a) When are we justified in using the Poisson approximation to the binomial? (b) Why would we want to do this approximation?
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Loose-leaf For Applied Statistics In Business And Economics
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