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The number of 911 calls in Butte, Montana, has a Poisson distribution with a mean of 10 calls a day. The probability of seven 911 calls in a day is ________.


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Randomized Block Design

An experimental setup that groups experimental units into blocks to account for variability among them before testing different treatments.

Matched Pairs Experiment

An experimental design where pairs of subjects are matched based on certain characteristics before one member of each pair is randomly assigned to the treatment group and the other to the control.

Randomized Block Design

A statistical experiment design that attempts to remove the effects of known confounding variables by grouping similar experimental units together into blocks before randomly assigning treatments.

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