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Chapter 8

Distributions

Chapter 8

Distributions

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The accurate values of population parameters such as population proportion, population mean, and population standard deviation (or variance) are usually …
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The degree of freedom for a particular statistical calculation is the number of values that are free to vary. Thus, the minimum number of independent …
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The population standard deviation is rarely known in many day-to-day examples of statistics. When the sample sizes are large, it is easy to estimate the …
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The z and the Student t distribution estimate the population mean using the sample mean and standard deviation. However, to decide which distribution to …
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How does one determine if bingo numbers are evenly distributed or if some numbers occurred with a greater frequency? Or if the types of movies people …
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Consider a curve representing sample data drawn randomly from a normally distributed population. One must construct confidence intervals to estimate or to …
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When the population standard deviation is unknown and the sample size is large, the sample standard deviation s is commonly used as a point estimate of …
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The goodness-of-fit test is a type of hypothesis test which determines whether the data "fits" a particular distribution. For example, one may …
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A goodness-of-fit test is conducted to determine whether the observed frequency values are statistically similar to the frequencies expected for the …
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A contingency table provides a way of portraying data that can facilitate calculating probabilities. It is a method of displaying a frequency distribution …
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In statistics, the term independence means that one can directly obtain the probability of any event involving both variables by multiplying their …
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The test of independence is a chi-square-based test used to determine whether two variables or factors are independent or dependent. This hypothesis test …
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Suppose one wants to test independence between the two variables of a contingency table. The values in the table constitute the observed frequencies of …
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The goodness–of–fit test can be used to decide whether a population fits a given distribution, but it will not suffice to decide whether two …
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The F distribution was named after Sir Ronald Fisher, an English statistician. The F statistic is a ratio (a fraction) with two sets of degrees of …