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Old 11-07-2007, 12:54 AM
ballin4life ballin4life is offline
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Default Re: statistics/standard deviation question from a non-math guy

Binomial Distribution with n=160 p=.125

The chance of him winning exactly 80 trials is miniscule (my calculator gives a result on the order of 10^(-30)

The chance of him winning 80 or more trials is slightly greater but still miniscule (my caluclator gives an answer of 0).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution
has the general formula (it's hard to type out but fairly simple to understand) and lots of other info.
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