{"id":21686,"date":"2017-06-05T16:17:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=21686"},"modified":"2017-06-05T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:17:42","slug":"statistics-when-can-you-use-the-normal-approximation-to-the-binomial-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/statistics-when-can-you-use-the-normal-approximation-to-the-binomial-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics:  When can you use the normal approximation to the binomial distribution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring statistics, rules of usage are key.  The tutor shares one about when the normal approximation to the binomial distribution can be used.<\/h1>\n<p>The binomial distribution imagines a series of n trials, each with probability p of success and q=(1-p) of failure.  The number of successes in n trials is the random variable x.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the binomial random variable x can be approximated to normal if np\u22655 and also nq\u22655.<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinecourses.science.psu.edu\/stat414\/node\/179\">PennState Eberly College of Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring statistics, rules of usage are key. The tutor shares one about when the normal approximation to the binomial distribution can be used. The binomial distribution imagines a series of n trials, each with probability p of success and q=(1-p) &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/statistics-when-can-you-use-the-normal-approximation-to-the-binomial-distribution\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Statistics:  When can you use the normal approximation to the binomial distribution?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2349],"class_list":["post-21686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics","tag-when-can-you-use-normal-approximation-to-binomial-distribution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21689,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686\/revisions\/21689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}