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Yes, I thought of trying that approach, but my head started to hurt. Of course, if Robert K. has succeeded in dividing his sample into n disjoint subsets, then
My original intention in writing the Note on die numbers on my site was simply to provide ordinary readers with some formulae they could use, together with
I get similar numbers. Modelling the selection of 575 coins as "sampling with replacement" from the population of coins, for it to be 50% likely that one
Hi Bill, Much of this depends on the state of the technology of any given issuer and region. Mediterranean gold is more refined than Celtic gold -- although