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...
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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)....
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Posted by Chris at 10:44 AM • 11 Comments •