Dear friends. In Carlin and Louis "Bayes and emperical Bayes methods.." 1996 the classical example of 12 independent tosses of a fair coin producing 9 heads and 3 tails is given. If the situation is seen as a fixed sample of 12, a binomial lieklihood is used, and Carlin et al reports a probability of 0.075. Using sum(dbinom(9:12,12,.5)) I obtain 0.073 Likewise, if the experiment is seen as continuing until 3 tails are noted, a negative binomial is used, and the authors find P = 0.0325, whereas sum(dnbinom(9:1000,3,.5)) gives 0.0327. These differences may be small - but who is right, either R or Carlin - or did I do it wrong ? Best wishes Troels -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._