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Description: Let there be x successes out of n Bernoulli trials. The sample proportion is the fraction of samples which were successes, so p^^=x/n. (1) For large n, p^^ has an approximately normal distribution. Let RE be the relative error and SE the standard error, then

= p (2) SE(p^^) = sigma(p^^)=sqrt((p(1-p))/n) (3) RE(p^^) = sqrt((2p^^(1-p^^))/n)erf^(-1)(CI), (4) where CI is the confidence interval and erfx is the erf function. The number of tries needed to determine p with...

Open Graph Description: Let there be x successes out of n Bernoulli trials. The sample proportion is the fraction of samples which were successes, so p^^=x/n. (1) For large n, p^^ has an approximately normal distribution. Let RE be the relative error and SE the standard error, then

= p (2) SE(p^^) = sigma(p^^)=sqrt((p(1-p))/n) (3) RE(p^^) = sqrt((2p^^(1-p^^))/n)erf^(-1)(CI), (4) where CI is the confidence interval and erfx is the erf function. The number of tries needed to determine p with...

X Description: Let there be x successes out of n Bernoulli trials. The sample proportion is the fraction of samples which were successes, so p^^=x/n. (1) For large n, p^^ has an approximately normal distribution. Let RE be the relative error and SE the standard error, then

= p (2) SE(p^^) = sigma(p^^)=sqrt((p(1-p))/n) (3) RE(p^^) = sqrt((2p^^(1-p^^))/n)erf^(-1)(CI), (4) where CI is the confidence interval and erfx is the erf function. The number of tries needed to determine p with...

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DC.DescriptionLet there be x successes out of n Bernoulli trials. The sample proportion is the fraction of samples which were successes, so p^^=x/n. (1) For large n, p^^ has an approximately normal distribution. Let RE be the relative error and SE the standard error, then

= p (2) SE(p^^) = sigma(p^^)=sqrt((p(1-p))/n) (3) RE(p^^) = sqrt((2p^^(1-p^^))/n)erf^(-1)(CI), (4) where CI is the confidence interval and erfx is the erf function. The number of tries needed to determine p with...

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