Timeline for Is the exact value of any likelihood meaningless?
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| Dec 28, 2022 at 16:33 | comment | added | Sextus Empiricus |
@JEDHK I had this calculated by a computer. In R you would use dbinom(500000,1000000,0.5). Alternatively you can use the asymptotic approximation for the middle term and compute $\frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{n\pi}}$. I guess that I used the first method because the second gives me 0.0007978846
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| Dec 28, 2022 at 16:05 | comment | added | JED HK | I mean the mathematical derivation that 1 000 000 flips with 500 000 heads and tails being 0.0007978844 | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 10:32 | comment | added | Sextus Empiricus | @JEDHK proof of what? | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 10:04 | comment | added | JED HK | Can you show the proof for this here? :) | |
| Jun 11, 2022 at 14:56 | history | answered | Sextus Empiricus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |