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\section{Statistics}  The data points (quasar pairs) collected for our study offers us the biggest sample space possible, as it was obtained from the biggest spectroscopy survey – the SDSS. Our sample has been created through the use of the criteria in the Liu et al  pair catalogue section. The data points are put into bins. This study makes use of binomial statistics for data analysis purposes.  The data points – the quasar pairs- follow a binomial distribution where the event of detecting a quasar that is in a quasar pair denotes a success. We have 138 070 Bernoulli trials. Where each trial either results in a success- detecting a quasaur pair in the FIRST survey ( referring to a quasar pair as defined by the selection criterion employed by Liu et al 2011) or a failure -not detecting a quasar pair. Liu et al detected 1 286 pairs, i.e we obtained 2 572 successes. n= 138 070, is the number of trials we conduct or the total number of AGN we have available.  The probability of a success is $\frac{2572}{138070} \approx 0.0186$ . We further assume that the trial are independent from each other (under the guidance of our selection criteria). Our variable of interest is the number of successes observed during the n trials.