[Rd] Are r2dtable and C_r2dtable behaving correctly?

peter dalgaard pdalgd at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 19:15:02 CEST 2017


> On 25 Aug 2017, at 12:04 , Peter Dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> There are three possible matrices, and these come out in proportions 1:4:1, the one with all cells filled with ones being
>> most common.
> 
> ... and
> 
>> dhyper(0:2,2,2,2)
> [1] 0.1666667 0.6666667 0.1666667
>> dhyper(0:2,2,2,2) *6
> [1] 1 4 1
> 
> so that is exactly what you would expect.

And, incidentally, this is the "statistician's socks" puzzle from introductory probability: 

A statistician has 2 white socks and 2 black socks. Late for work a dark November morning, he puts on two socks at random. What is the probability that he goes to work with different colored socks?

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