"David Heiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Thanks for your answer Dr Karl W., but I am lookinf for an >> explanation about the importance of this Galton Board. >> The real importance of this Galton Board in relation to Statistical > history >> and/or real life >> Thanks again >> Ivan > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- ----------------- > We're talking about 1893 when they didn't have electronics, > Galton's board of nails, shown as an illustration in his book, was a > device to show that random events (impacts on balls) tended to a > normal distribution of final position. > > David Heiser > Isn't the final result a normal approximation of the binomial distribution? > . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
