Chapter 2 Modeling Distributions Flashcards
1
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percentile (pth)
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the value with p percent of the observations less than it
2
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standardized value
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often called the z-score, if there is a known mean and standard deviation, the z-score can be calculated
3
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the standard Normal table (Table A)
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a table of areas under the standard Normal curve, entry for each value z is the area under the curve to the left of z
4
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standard Normal distribution
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the Normal distribution with a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1
