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You can use the Poisson distribution to approximate the binomial distribution with mean nP when P is small and n is large, such that nP is of only moderate size (preferably nP  7).
 
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A point estimate is an estimate of a population parameter expressed as a single numerical value.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

TRUE

Answer to Question 2

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Reply 2 on: Jun 24, 2018
Gracias!

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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