On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Gary Carson wrote:
> It's the proportion of success (x/n) which has approxiatmenly a normal
> distribution for large n, not the number of success (x).
Both are approximately normal.
(If the r.v. W = (x/n) is (approximately) normally distributed, then
the r.v. V = x = n*W must also be; only with a mean and standard
deviation each n times as large as for W.)
-- DFB.
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