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- From: hart@de01.denver.waii.com (Doug Hart)
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- Subject: Re: "Contagious" Distribution
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:19:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.200021.18490@news.acns.nwu.edu>, lapin@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gregory Lapin) writes:
- |>
- |> I have been presented with the problem of recognizing a "Contagious"
- |> distribution, which has been described to me as a distribution of items
- |> that are clustered.
- |>
- |> I have not been able to find any references to this type of distribution.
- |> If anyone knows of such references, or another name that describes this,
- |> please either respond to this newgroup or by email.
- |>
- |> Thanks,
- |>
- |> Greg Lapin
- |> glapin@nwu.edu
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- In the 3rd edition of Mood, Graybill, and Boes, _Introduction to the Theory
- of Statistics_, they discuss contagious distributions in section 4.3 of
- chapter 3.
-
- Doug Hart
- hart@de01.denver.waii.com
-