Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.math,net.politics Subject: Re: simple statistics question Message-ID: <813@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Dec-83 18:25:00 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.813 Posted: Sat Dec 3 18:25:00 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Dec-83 23:01:36 EST References: <130@hou3c.UUCP> Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 5 The balls-and-urns analogy is a little misleading. If deterrence fails, it will probably do so only once. The "event" is thus not repeatable. George Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!colonel