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In this exercise, I’m getting 0.0 for the probabilities of both the no_emails and b_test_emails, yet the answers are showing as correct. Is this a bug or is this in fact the correct answer? Code as follows:
import numpy as np
emails = np.random.binomial(500, 0.05, size=10000)
no_emails = np.mean(emails == 0)
b_test_emails = np.mean(emails == 0.08)
print no_emails
print b_test_emails
Seems like a bug to me. There are quite a few on this series.
Regarding no_emails, it is due to the very small probability that emails contains at least one 0. If the probability that a recipient of one email open it is 0.05, then the probability of sending 500 emails and being opened by nobody is (1 - 0.05) ** 500. Therefore, the probability that 0 will appear even once in 10000 trials is 1 - (1 - (1 - 0.05) ** 500) ** 10000. If you calculate this, it will be about 0.000000073.
zero_out_of_500 = (1 - 0.05) ** 500
p = 1 - (1 - zero_out_of_500) ** 10000
print(p) # 7.2745140578e-08
This is the probability of 7.3 out of 100,000,000 clicks on ‘Run’.
Regarding b_test_emails, I think the correct code is:
b_test_emails = np.mean(emails >= 500 * 0.08)
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