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The relationships between hypergeometric, binomial, Poisson and normal distributions; use of binomial as approximation to hypergeometric in sampling; Poisson as approximation to binomial; normal as an approximation to binomial; normal as an approximation to Poisson.
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© 1973 J. Murdoch and J. A. Barnes
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Murdoch, J., Barnes, J.A. (1973). Relationship between the basic distributions. In: Statistics: Problems and Solutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01063-9_5
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