JMP® Means Business: Statistical Models for Management

Chapter 6. Continuous Probability Distributions

• 6.1 Introduction to Continuous Distributions 132

• 6.2 Characteristics of Continuous Distributions 132

  • 6.2.1 Density Function f(y) 132

  • 6.2.2 Cumulative Distribution Function F(y) 133

  • 6.2.3 General Shape of Continuous Distributions 133

  • 6.2.4 Measures of Location and Spread 134

• 6.3 Uniform Distribution 135

• 6.4 The Normal Distribution 136

  • 6.4.1 General Normal Distribution with Mean[Y] = μ and SD[Y] = σ 136

  • 6.4.2 Standard Normal Distribution 139

• 6.5 Central Limit Theorem 146

• 6.6 Sampling Distributions 148

  • 6.6.1 Student's t-Distribution 149

  • 6.6.2 Chi-Square Distribution 150

  • 6.6.3 F-Distribution 151

• 6.7 Summary 152

• 6.8 Problems 154

• 6.9 Case Study: Julie's Lakeside Candy 156

6.1 Introduction to Continuous Distributions

Continuous ...