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Subject: Getting a probability from a MoE, percentage and/or sample size
Category: Science > Math
Asked by: zforce-ga
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Posted: 15 Sep 2004 11:08 PDT
Expires: 15 Oct 2004 11:08 PDT
Question ID: 401611

If there is a poll done that reports:

Bush 51% Kerry 47% Nader 1%
Sample size 1097, MoE 3.5%

What is the probability that Bush is leading Kerry?

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Subject: Re: Getting a probability from a MoE, percentage and/or sample size
From: ashok_4442002-ga on 04 Oct 2004 02:46 PDT

i cannot understand the MoE meaning but i think that u want the
probabilty of the bush here it comes just u think the bush per as 100
and subtract the all other non favour percentages of the bush u will
get it.

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