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Message posted by Shelly on June 29, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

Today in class we looked at Pascal's triangel and had to see how it relates to statistics. Is thisa link between the two somwthing to do with distribution? Your help is greatly needed. Thanks in advance

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Re: Distribution
Message posted by Phil on June 30, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

It is associated with the binomial distribution (e.g. Flip a coin 5 times, what is the probability that you get 3 heads?).

Pascal's triangle gives a number (binomial coefficient)that helps compute the probability.

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