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A little help in probability and stats?
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09-17-2012, 06:46 PM
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DanT
Hey Rain Man,
That's the hypergeometric distribution. Excel has a function hypergeomdist() for that.
Here's the Wolfram link on the hypergeometric distribution:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hyperge...tribution.html
--Dan
This is absolutely right if all he needs is the probability of drawing any particular number. Since he asked for the number of combinations, I gave them to him.
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