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The American Statistician Volume 42, 1988 - Issue 3
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A Box of Balls: New Lessons from an Old Model

David W. Pentico School of Business and Administration, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15282, USA
Pages 197-198 | Received 01 Sep 1987, Published online: 27 Feb 2012
 
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Abstract

A variation on the lottery-type box-of-numbered-balls model is presented as a way of illustrating various concepts associated with the assessment of probabilities, point estimation and hypothesis testing, and the model development process.

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