William L Hunt wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:28:46 +0000 (UTC), "Perplexed in Peoria"
>  wrote:
> 

> 
>   It seems to me BOH is mostly quibbling here. I have often seen the
> frequency distribution predicted by the Hardy-Weinberg "law" referred
> to as the Hardy-Weinberg distribution and I am sure BOH must have seen
> this also so I don't know why he is complaining about this usage by
> John.

Too much statistics - it simply isn't a distribution in the sense I 
would use the term.  The only "frequency distribution" (in the sense 
that I would use the term) would be the tri-nomial distribution with 
cell probabilities {p^2, 2p(1-p), (1-p)^2}.

Bob

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