Abstract
Looking up probabilities once was a time-consuming, complex, and error-prone task. Virtually every statistics book has tables of various probability distributions in an appendix, but R provides a family of functions for both discrete and continuous probability functions, making the use of tables unnecessary. You have already seen the rnorm() function used to produce random numbers that simulate a normal distribution with a certain mean and standard deviation. The functions for other probability distributions are all similarly labeled to make it easy to remember them.
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- Continuous Probability Function
- Finding Critical Values
- Develop Confidence Intervals
- fBasics Package
- Left-tailed Probabilities
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© 2014 Larry A. Pace
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Pace, L.A. (2014). Probability Distributions. In: R Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0130-5_9
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