Re: wait a minute
Posted by Roger Hunter on August 22, 2007 at 09:09:01:

Chris;

Neither did I, obviously. Here's the table the way I should have presented it in the firat place:


       Number of quakes:  3153 

       Number of instances for each day count

        0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9

 0    623   464   356   281   258   198   175   131   108   104 
10     84    76    51    39    30    36    35    17    15    12 
20     11     7     5     4     6     2     4     3     0     0 
30      4     0     1     3     1     0     2     3     0     0 
40      0     0     0     0     1     1     1     0     0     0 

           Total number of pairs:   3152 
        Total (days times count):  14461 
Average (total divided by pairs):  4.6

I was thinking of the situation where beads fall into bins at random resulting in a bell curve but that's not the way averages work.

Roger

Follow Ups:
     ● I may understand it (sort of) now - heartland chris  15:20:59 - 8/22/2007  (72505)  (1)
        ● exactly (nm) - John Vidale  18:43:01 - 8/22/2007  (72508)  (1)
           ● Re: exactly (nm) - Roger Hunter  20:04:20 - 8/22/2007  (72509)  (1)
              ● check the most anomalous pairs - John Vidale  13:28:03 - 8/23/2007  (72510)  (0)