On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 08:41:01PM -0700, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List wro> > It may seem counter intuitive, but as the sample length goes up the > probability of each possible proportion goes down, including that of the > true value. It goes down because there are more possible exact values. > > Brent >
Yes, but that is not really related either. When talking about all proportions that lie within (say) 1% of 50/50, the number of such distinct proportions grows faster than the probability of each possible proportion. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/20200311053037.GA30360%40zen.
