Timeline for Using proportion to create a probability distribution
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| May 23, 2023 at 9:52 | comment | added | Nick Cox | If 6 is possible, but not observed in the sample, that's part of the data. So you have observed proportions 1/5 5 times and 0/5 times. It's a matter of statistics as much as probability that you don't have a big enough sample to do anything much with. Even in principle not all possible outcomes can be observed in the same sample, so that at least one observed proportion must be 0. | |
| May 23, 2023 at 9:46 | comment | added | nivedita | Apologies for the confusion. X is the trial number. I throw the die 5 times, so X is 5. Y is the value that I observed on the die after I throw it. | |
| May 23, 2023 at 9:44 | history | edited | nivedita | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 23, 2023 at 8:25 | answer | added | Tim | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 23, 2023 at 7:04 | comment | added | Glen_b | Are the Y's intended to be counts within each X category? | |
| May 23, 2023 at 6:15 | comment | added | gunes | What are X an Y? And if you toss it 5 times, why do you divide by 15? | |
| May 23, 2023 at 6:00 | history | asked | nivedita | CC BY-SA 4.0 |