Re: Symbolic Formula
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- Subject: [mg106363] Re: Symbolic Formula
- From: John <jwa0 at lehigh.edu>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:31:17 -0500 (EST)
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On Jan 8, 4:17 am, John <j... at lehigh.edu> wrote:
> Mathematica 6, Windows XP
>
> The left-hand-side of the equality appearing below is shorthand
> notation for the the probability that would be computed, if the right
> hand side was evaluated for specified values of n and p. The
> appearance of the equality is suitable for displaying in class on a
> projector.
>
> Grid[{{"P(X=j|n,p)=", Binomial[n, j] // TraditionalForm ,
> "\!\(\*SuperscriptBox[\"p\", \
> \"j\"]\)(1-p\!\(\*SuperscriptBox[\")\",
> RowBox[{\"n\", \"-\", \"j\"}]]\)"}}, Frame -> True,
> Spacings -> {.5, 2},
> ItemStyle -> Directive[FontFamily -> "Tahoma", Bold, 24]]
>
> The cumulative distribution function includes a summation sign on the
> right-hand-side of the equality, but the appearance of my attempts to
> insert the summation sign are not acceptable.
>
> Appearance matters because the equality is displayed on a projector
> and viewed by students in class.
>
> John
Addendum:
I started with the following:
TraditionalForm /@ {Sum[( {
{n},
{i}
} ), {i, 0, j}]}
Manually removed the curly brackets from previous output, and used the
palette to add the remainder of the formula.
\!\(\*
TagBox[
FormBox[
RowBox[{
UnderoverscriptBox["\[Sum]",
RowBox[{"i", "=", "0"}], "j"],
RowBox[{"(", "\[NoBreak]", GridBox[{
{"n"},
{"i"}
},
GridBoxAlignment->{
"Columns" -> {{Left}}, "ColumnsIndexed" -> {},
"Rows" -> {{Baseline}}, "RowsIndexed" -> {}},
GridBoxSpacings->{"Columns" -> {
Offset[0.27999999999999997`], {
Offset[0.7]},
Offset[0.27999999999999997`]}, "ColumnsIndexed" -> {}, "Rows" -> {
Offset[0.2], {
Offset[0.4]},
Offset[0.2]}, "RowsIndexed" -> {}}], "\[NoBreak]", ")"}]}],
TraditionalForm],
TraditionalForm,
Editable->True]\) p^i (1 - p)^(n - i)
What appears above is exactly what I want except that it is too small
to be viewed on a projector. How do I make it bigger?
John