Suppose you have 3 jars with the following contents. Jar 1 has 1 white ball and 2 black balls. Jar 2 has 2 white balls and black ball. Jar 3 has 1 white ball and 1 black ball. One jar is to be selected, and then 1 ball is to be drawn from the select jar. The probabilities of selecting the first, second, and third jars are 1/2, 1/3, and 1/6 respectively. Find the probability the ball was drawn from Jar 1, given that the ball is white.
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
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