Learn by Doing – Comparing Probability Distributions #2

Published: February 2nd, 2013

Keeping in mind that the mean describes where a histogram is centered, and the standard deviation describes spread by reporting the typical distance of values from their mean, match the random variable in each of the histograms here to the correct combination of mean and standard deviation.

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Tagged as: Discrete Random Variable, Expected Value (Random Variable), Mean (Random Variable), Probability Distribution, Standard Deviation (Random Variable), Variance (Random Variable)

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Learn by Doing – Comparing Probability Distributions #2