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alokm
16y ago
i was referring to the chances of 5% of the papers giving wrong results. using pvalue as the chance of failure in each research paper , binomial can be used to find the probability that 5% of the papers are in correct
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alokm
16y ago
You will have to use binomial distribution ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution ) for finding the probability that 5% of them are wrong (Assuming researches are independent). I guess this probability will come to be very sma