Summary
In a recent article in Teaching Statistics, Marcuson (1989) has presented an interesting alternative approach to establishing some combinatorial identities, quite different from the usual induction proofs. The purpose of this short note is to suggest yet another way in whcih combinatorics can sometimes be approached.
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