At 11:37 12/10/00 +0100, ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu wrote: >Paul C wrote [#4047] >> if c and v are random variables, log occ is then in the form >> of a sum of random variables, and thus will have a Gaussian distribution >> >> > Is this by some version of the central limit theorem? Doesn't one >need a sum of rather more variables than two to get this? If the distribution of both is the same what you get is a normal distribution. I was implicitly assuming that c and v would have similar sorts of distribution to each other. Thinking about it more carefully, I now realise that whilst the distribution of c and v is likely to be similar - dominated as it is by variations in company turnover - my initial assumption rested on c and v being independent random variables which they clearly are not. > Paul, were you writing in haste here? > > Yes I was. Paul Cockshott (clyder@gn.apc.org)
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