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Broad Topics > Advanced Probability and Statistics > Probability density functions

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PCDF

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When can a pdf and a cdf coincide?

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Circle Pdf

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What happens if this pdf is the arc of a circle?

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Into the Normal Distribution

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Investigate the normal distribution

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Into the Exponential Distribution

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Get into the exponential distribution through an exploration of its pdf.

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Distribution Differences

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How could you compare different situation where something random happens ? What sort of things might be the same ? What might be different ?

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Pdf Stories

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Invent scenarios which would give rise to these probability density functions.

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Scale Invariance

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By exploring the concept of scale invariance, find the probability that a random piece of real data begins with a 1.

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Exponential Intersection

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Can the pdfs and cdfs of an exponential distribution intersect?

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PDF

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Given a probability density function find the mean, median and mode of the distribution.

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Introducing Distributions

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When five dice are rolled together which do you expect to see more often, no sixes or all sixes ?


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