Distributions

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What are the 4 distributions?
Geometric, Binomial, Poissan, Normal
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Which distributions are discrete?
Geometric, Binomial, Poissan
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Which distribution is continuous?
Normal
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What theorem allows the distributions to be approximated using other distributions?
The Central Limit Theorem
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If going from a discrete to a continuous distribution, what must you do?
Continuity Corrections
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Which distribution(s) can be used to approximate the binomial?
Poissan, Normal
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Which distribution(s) can be used to approximate Poissan?
Normal only
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Which distribution(s) can be used to approximate normal?
None of them
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What are the conditions required to approximate the binomial using the normal?
np > 5 and nq > 5
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What are the conditions required to approximate the binomial using Poissan?
n > 50 and np < 5 OR n > 50 and p < 0.1
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What are the conditions needed to approximate Poissan with normal?
λ > 15
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What is the correct way to write out the normal approximation of Poissan?
X ~ N( λ , λ )
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What is the correct way to write out the Poissan approximation of the binomial?
X ~ Po( np )
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What are the conditions needed for an event to modelled using the geometric distribution?
independent, constant probability
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What conditions are needed for an event to be modelled using binomial distribution?
independent, constant probability
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Which distributions are discrete?

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Which distribution is continuous?

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What theorem allows the distributions to be approximated using other distributions?

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If going from a discrete to a continuous distribution, what must you do?

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