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Category: Statistics
So the last post was pretty dense, and I haven't used an example since the first post, so I thought I'd throw one out there that you can play with. In what follows, I pretend to use the equations, but...
Posted by Chris at 4:29 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Statistics
So far we've been talking about different distributions and their parameters. If we're looking at a population with known parameters, then we're going to be dealing with either a normal distribution or a standardized normal distribution (Post I and II)....
Posted by Chris at 9:30 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Statistics
Before we start in on new stuff, let's recap what we've covered so far. We started with the Central Limit Theorem, which tells us that if a bunch of random variables go into determining the values of yet another variable,...
Posted by Chris at 10:38 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Statistics
So in the last post, we talked about the normal distribution, and at the very end, discussed that if you knew the mean and standard deviation of a population for a particular variable, than you can compute the probabilities associated...
Posted by Chris at 10:02 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Statistics
So here's the first post on statistics. If you know the basics, and I suspect most of you do, then you can just ignore these posts (unless you want to check to make sure I'm getting it right). If you...
Posted by Chris at 10:44 AM • 11 Comments •
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