On Mon, 5 Dec 2016, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > The only problem is that the elements of "White" are not independent, since > their sum MUST equal 5 * 605, so that complicates things a little.
And that precisely why the hypergeometric distribution arises. However, with n as large as 69, the difference between a hypergeometric and a binomial (and hence a Gaussian, for large N) should be barely noticeable. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------
