Re: [R] Likelihood of deviation

2011-03-25 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Michael Hecker wrote: Hi, I have a dataset of 78.903 news articles pertaining to 340 corporate takeovers. Mean 231.3871 [articles per takeover] Std. Dev. 673.6395 I would like to calculate the probability of a certain number of news articles if I had more tak

[R] Likelihood of deviation

2011-03-25 Thread Michael Hecker
Hi, I have a dataset of 78.903 news articles pertaining to 340 corporate takeovers. Mean 231.3871 [articles per takeover] Std. Dev. 673.6395 I would like to calculate the probability of a certain number of news articles if I had more takeovers available. How likely is it to have X articles if