Media type: E-Article Title: Three Simple Inductive Proofs in Probability and Statistics Contributor: Feldman, Dorian; Fox, Martin Published: American Statistical Association, 1980 Published in: The American Statistician, 34 (1980) 1, Seite 50-51 Language: English ISSN: 0003-1305 Keywords: The Teacher's Corner Origination: Footnote: Description: Elementary inductive proofs are presented for the binomial approximation to the hypergeometric distribution, the density of an order statistic, and the distribution of ∑n i=1(Xi- X̄n)2when X1,...,Xnare a sample from N(μ,1).