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We have learned that probability and sampling play a role in statistics. In this chapter we show that probability (frequency) distributions exist for different types of statistics; i.e. the binomial distribution (frequency distribution of dichotomous data) and normal distribution (frequency distribution of continuous data).
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Schumacker, R., Tomek, S. (2013). Statistical Distributions. In: Understanding Statistics Using R. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6227-9_6
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