Estimating Bernoulli trial probability from a small sample
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
2011-05-11 v1 Probability
Computation
Abstract
The standard textbook method for estimating the probability of a biased coin from finite tosses implicitly assumes the sample sizes are large and gives incorrect results for small samples. We describe the exact solution, which is correct for any sample size.
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@article{arxiv.1105.1486,
title = {Estimating Bernoulli trial probability from a small sample},
author = {Norman D. Megill and Mladen Pavicic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.1486},
year = {2011}
}
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