A disease
A disease affects 10% of the individuals in a population and a sample of 100 peoples selected from the population. What is the probability of finding the disease in at least in at least 15 people?
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- statistics
- binomial distribution
- combinatorics
- combinatorial number
- algebra
- sets
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