Sunday, December 7, 2008

Outside Reading Post 17

Today's blog post will be about Statistics, from my reading of my statistics book over the weekend. Why would I read my stat book ? Well obviously to learn! Anyways, I will just briefly go over the fact that it was unusually easier to understand the content of chapter 5 when I actually read the chapter. The chapter is about Producing Data with Randomization. The concept is quite simple actually, you basically just need to be able to produce data of a sample, a section of a population, by using random numbers from either a Table of Random Numbers, or a calculator that can simulate that for you. I found it quite interesting that you are able to answer questions such as, "A couple wants to have a girl in their family, they will continue to have children until they either have a girl, or have 4 children. Using the concept of randomization and probability, show the possibility of the couple having a girl in their family." Now I can finally do my math homework correctly !

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