Written by Scott D. Anderson
scott.anderson@acm.org
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Review and such

  • Story about projections of when SSA will not be able to pay full benefits: 2028 or 2042? (Those numbers are my recollection; they might be wrong, quantitative if not qualitative.)
  • Story about average toys per child
  • Look at child development data presentation
  • Go over exam questions, if desired
  • Questions about last time?
  • Talk about the collection of distributions we know
    • uniform, integer
    • binomial
    • negative binomial
    • Poisson
    • uniform, real
    • triangular
    • exponential
    • Gaussian

New Material

  • Fallacies
  • The Normal Distribution
    • PDF
    • CDF using Excel
    • CDF using Freund's tables
    • standard units