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Old 04-18-2013, 04:34 PM
seped seped is offline
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Sorry I misspoke, meant to just say independent.

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but maybe it would be OK, or at least good enough for the wiki. Thanks for the help!
Well that's exactly the uncertainty the error is supposed to account for. It will be pretty obvious for samples when you just don't have enough data. If you run 2% drop 100 times and get 4 drops, the error bounds you'll generate will be be 4% +/- 3.9% conversely if you ran 1000 trials your error bounds would be down around .7%. It answers the question of if your sample is large enough at the same time.

Useful link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomia...dence_interval What we're doing here is explicitly finding a confidence interval for a binomial test.
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