August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
16h 9m
English
This chapter covers
In chapter 8, you learned all about statistics, where you take real-world samples and measurements and try to understand them. This chapter deals with the intimately related field of probability, which approaches finding patterns in numbers and data from the opposite perspective. With probability distributions, you define models of how you expect data to behave. For example, the Gaussian or normal distribution is used to define SAT scores, ensuring that most test takers get average scores ...