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- Suppose we select a sample of events from some set,
- e.g., the sample may be those falling into some bin of a
histogram.
- We wish to estimate fraction of events with given property.
- Define random variable f by

- Write
g=1 Event in Given Histogram
g=0 Event Not in Histogram
-
is only defined for events that fall in histogram, and
event in particular bin
event does not fall in bin
- Let
, and 
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu