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Old 03-July-2007, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip View Post
The binomial function shows the probability of a randomly selected group of days receiving a specific amount of rain.
No it doesn't. You don't have binomial data. Rainfall amounts for individual days may well be exponentially distributed (I'm guessing - I'm not a meteorologist), in which case the sums and/or averages will have a gamma distribution.