Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers

140 CHAPTER 4 CONTINUOUS RANDOM VARIABLES AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

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Chi-squared

distribution

Continuous uniform

distribution

Cumulative probability

distribution function-

continuous random

variable

Erlang distribution

Exponential distribution

Gamma distribution

Lack of memory

property-continuous

random variable

Lognormal

distribution

Mean-continuous

random variable

Mean-function of a

continuous random

variable

Normal approximation to

binomial and Poisson

probabilities

Normal distribution

Probability density

function

Probability distribution-

continuous random

variable

Standard deviation-

continuous random

variable

Standard normal

distribution

Standardizing

Variance-continuous

random variable

Weibull distribution

CD MATERIAL

Continuity correction

IMPORTANT TERMS AND CONCEPTS

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