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There are many instances wherein you use samples to help you make decisions, though not in the formal ways we shall be developing in this course. For example, the authors examine a box of strawberries in the supermarket and, seeing at most one or two berries with “spots”, buy the box. The other way around, a nut broker examines a handful of nuts from a large sack of unshelled pecans and, on the basis of size, color, fullness, and taste, decides what price to pay. First we need the following.
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Nguyen, H.T., Rogers, G.S. (1989). A Hypergeometric Distribution. In: Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1013-9_13
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