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Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making, 7th Edition
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Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making, 7th Edition

by Ken Black
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
36h 13m
English
Wiley
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CHAPTER 5

Discrete Distributions

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The overall learning objective of Chapter 5 is to help you understand a category of probability distributions that produces only discrete outcomes, thereby enabling you to:

  1. Define a random variable in order to differentiate between a discrete distribution and a continuous distribution
  2. Determine the mean, variance, and standard deviation of a discrete distribution
  3. Solve problems involving the binomial distribution using the binomial formula and the binomial table
  4. Solve problems involving the Poisson distribution using the Poisson formula and the Poisson table
  5. Solve problems involving the hypergeometric distribution using the hypergeometric formula

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