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id: 2026-01-30T16:29:00-0500
title: 2026-01-30 16:29:??
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# 2026-01-30 16:29:??
## New Statistics Concepts
[[statistics]] topics researched while reading
[[hubbard_2025_project-management]]:
### Laplace's Rule of Succession (LRS)
> [!info]
> Pierre-Simon Laplace
If some event occurred $m$ times in $n$ observations,
the probability the event will occur in the next observation
is given by:
$$
\frac{1+m}{2+n}
$$
### "Rule of Five"
> Hubbard et al. speak of this "rule"
> as if it's well known by that name,
> but I can't corroborate that.
The probability that any given sample is above the median is 50%.
The probability that the minimum and maximum values of $n$ samples
_don't_ straddle the median is $(\frac{1}{2})^{n}$,
equivalent to getting the same result on a flipped coin
$n$ times in a row.
There is a 93.75% chance that the median of a population
is between the smallest and largest values
in any random sample of five from that population.