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  Re: Probability question  
From: scott
Date: 8 Feb 2010 07:13:53
Message: <4b700001$1@news.povray.org>
> Wikipedia claims that for large N, the binomial distribution approximates 
> the normal distribution.

Yes, it seems my parameter values fit in ok for this approximation to be 
pretty accurate.

> I presume it's relatively easy to work out the inverse function for a 
> normal distribution...

Excel has a built in function to do this, so this looks like the way to go.


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