Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker...
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03-19-2016, 08:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-19-2016 08:05 PM by Jim Horn.)
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RE: Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker...
Good heavens - that was covered in a classical Math puzzle book in the '50s or thereabouts.
[Spoiler alert] The statistician did a histogram of number of rolls purchased versus their weight. When he saw that it formed just the upper tail of a classical normal distribution, that proved that he was getting only rolls picked from a population which averaged below the advertised weight. Now, *my* question - what was the name of that book (grunty face here, trying to remember...)? |
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Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker... - Harald - 03-18-2016, 02:55 PM
RE: Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker... - Dave Frederickson - 03-18-2016, 08:32 PM
RE: Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker... - Harald - 03-18-2016, 08:52 PM
RE: Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker... - d b - 03-19-2016, 01:06 AM
RE: Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker... - Dave Frederickson - 03-19-2016, 01:30 AM
RE: Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker... - Jim Horn - 03-19-2016 08:05 PM
RE: Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker... - dxaren - 04-18-2016, 11:03 PM
RE: Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker... - Dave Frederickson - 04-18-2016, 11:19 PM
RE: Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker... - Jim Horn - 04-19-2016, 01:28 AM
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