You can approximate the binomial and Poisson distributions with the normal, but what about the geometric disribution? Can the normal distribution ever approximate that?
You can approximate the binomial and Poisson distributions with the normal, but what about the geometric disribution? Can the normal distribution ever approximate that?
Calculus For The Life Sciences
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Chapter13: Probability And Calculus
Section13.2: Expected Value And Variance Of Continuous Random Variables
Problem 10E
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and Poisson distributions with the
normal, but what about the geometric
disribution? Can the normal distribution
ever approximate that?
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