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Re:Former top executives of France Télécom on trial for hara... by liberte82 on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @11:34AM (#20402945)
> natural variance alone will push about 14% of random 22k samples into "more than double the base rate" area.

Is this true? Can you show the math on this? I'm not seeing it.

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Re:Former top executives of France Télécom on trial for hara... by praptak on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:48PM (#20404423)
Nevermind, I made a mistake in my original calculations - used variance instead of standard deviation.

Actually (from approximating the binomial distribution with n=22k and p=17/22000 with normal one) getting the rate over 30 per 22k has p<0.001.

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