RichardKennaway comments on binomial variance problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 08 April 2012 09:41:29AM 0 points [-]

No principle, just the fact that the variance of the binomial distribution is p(1-p), which peaks at p=0.5.