Bionomial and possion
On Aug 28, 2012, at 10:43 , quantum wrote:
Make a plot in R where you compare the probability distributions for the Binomial distributions with N=1000 trials and succes probability 0.005 and the Possion Distribution with rate lambda=5. My answer is b<-binom(x, 1000, 0.005, log = FALSE) plot(b) p<-dpois(x, lambda, log = FALSE) plot(p) *Is this the right way to solve the problem?*
Not quite, but there's a no-homework policy on this list. Hints (violating the policy slightly...) - Does the code actually run? - Are the axes correct (what are the x values)? - Wouldn't you want to have them in one plot frame for comparison?
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