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Strategies & Market Trends : ahhaha's ahs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GraceZ who wrote (529)	12/7/2000 1:16:23 PM
From: M. Frank Greiffenstein	Respond to of 24758

OK, Grace, will do. Doc Stone

To: GraceZ who wrote (529)	12/7/2000 1:37:00 PM
From: M. Frank Greiffenstein	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24758

Odds Ratios... I read the link. I assume that "I want to stamp out that story" refers to the story that H, A and L are letters left-adjacent to I, B and M. Clark states that odds of that specific combination are 263 to 1. I do not think this is correct. Lets do the math. Lets treat it as a combinatorial issue without replacement. How many unique combinations of three letters are there? If you pick one letter, that leaves 25, so there are 26 X 25 combinations of two letters. That leaves 24. So the total universe of all 3 letter unique combos are 26 X 25 X 24 or 15,600. The odds of getting the 3 letters left-adjacent to I/B/M is 15,600 to 1. Doc Stone