Re: Hardy-Weinberg lawt

From: Perplexed in Peoria (jimmenegay_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:10:43 +0000 (UTC)

"Anon." <bob.ohara@SOD.OFF.Spammers.helsinki.fi> wrote in message
news:cbpfed$8kv$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
> Too much statistics - it simply isn't a distribution in the sense I
> would use the term. The only "frequency distribution" (in the sense
> that I would use the term) would be the tri-nomial distribution with
> cell probabilities {p^2, 2p(1-p), (1-p)^2}.

Bob, you might check your texts. According to what I read, you have
just described a binomial distribution (with n=2). The corresponding
trinomial distribution would have six cells:

( p^2, q^2, r^2, 2pq, 2pr, 2qr) with the constraint that p+q+r=1.

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