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Many of the variables that you have studied so far in your statistics class have had a normal distribution. You may have used a table of the normal distribution to answer questions about a randomly selected individual or a random sample taken from a normal distribution. Many distributions, however, are not normal or any other standard shape.
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Scheaffer, R.L., Watkins, A., Gnanadesikan, M., Witmer, J.A. (1996). Cents and the Central Limit Theorem. In: Activity-Based Statistics. Textbooks in mathematical sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3843-8_19
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