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Understanding Normal Probability for Successful Quality Control

Over the last few decades, Lean Six Sigma has become an integral part of the world of business. It is one of the most ...
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Creating a Normal Probability-Probability Plot

The distances between two holes cut into 50 steel sheets are measured and saved as values of the variable DISTANCE in the following data set: * data sheets; input distance @@; label distance='Distance ...
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The Role of the Anderson-Darling Test in Assumption Testing

What exactly is an Anderson-Darling test? Testing for normality is often the first step in analyzing your data. Many statistical tools you might use have normality as an underlying assumption. If you ...
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Counter-examples to an Assertion Concerning the Normal Distribution and a New Stochastic Price Fluctuation Model

The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Jul., 1971), pp. 381-383 (3 pages) ...
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Example 2.1: Fitting a Normal Distribution

You can use the CDFPLOT statement to fit any of six theoretical distributions (beta, exponential, gamma, lognormal, normal, and Weibull) and superimpose them on the cdf plot. The following statements ...
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Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Actuarial Science, BSc in Actuarial Science (with a Placement Year), BSc in Financial Mathematics and Statistics and BSc in Mathematics, Statistics and Business ...
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Estimating the Current Mean of a Normal Distribution which is Subjected to Changes in Time

The purpose of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability. The Institute was formed at a ...