Based on the PyMC port of the book “Rethinking Statistics - e2”, I have been trying to reproduce the normal approximation to a binomial. I get the correct result for the mean, but the SD is off by a factor of 4 - and I cannot find the problem. This is also relevant for the https://github.com/pymc-d…

Problems with finding normal approximation to binomial

opherdonchin December 22, 2022, 8:37pm 4

The issue is also discussed extensively in this thread.

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