In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Cryer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"This may surprise some folks." > >It certainly should surprise anyone who has studied statistics! (I assume you meant "should not surprise")
You can improve the with-replacement variance by "labeling" the balls and making your estimate a sum over the labels. Still doesn't beat sampling without replacement though. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
