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Continuous probability distributions

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Essential Statistics

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In Chapter 3 we considered an example of a continuous variable, namely the height of a student, and we summarized the heights of 50 students by a histogram, Fig. 3.1, reproduced here as Fig. 7.1.

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Rees, D.G. (1989). Continuous probability distributions. In: Essential Statistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7260-6_7

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