Chapter Six - Theoretical Distributions
Including the Normal Distribution
Chapter
Objectives
- Distinguish between a theoretical and an empirical
distribution
- Distinguish between a theoretical and an empirical
probability
- Predict the probability of certain events from you knowlige of
the theoretical distribution of those events
- List the characteristics of the normal distribution
- Find the proportion of a normal distibution that lies betweent
two scores
- Fine the scores between which a certain proportion of a normal
distribution falls
- Find the number of scores associated with a particular
proportion of normal distribution
Chapter Oultine
- Probability
- A Rectangular Distribution
- A Binomial Distribution
- Comparison of Theoretical and Empirical Distributions
- The Normal Distribution
- Comparison of Theoretical and Empirical Answers
- Other Theoretical Distributions
Back to
Statistics