10/25/2023

Chapter 6 - Continuous Probability

• See Chapter6 - CDF - Uniform distribution - transformation of variables.pdf in our Google Drive folder
  • Definition and application of the cumulative distribution function (cdf)
  • Properties of the cdf
  • Transformation of Variables - Technique #1 - Using the cdf
  • The relationship between a pdf and a cdf
  • Transformation of Variables - Technique #2 - Using the pdf
  • Finding the median and other percentiles for continuous distributions
  • Find the mean and variance for continuous distributions
  • Joint distributions for continuous random variables
  • Marginal distributions for continuous random variables.
• See Chapter6 - Exponential distibution.pdf in our Google Drive folder
  • The general form of the pdf for an exponential distribution
  • The cdf for an exponential distribution
  • The mgf for an exponential distribution
  • The mean and variance for an exponential distribution
  • An application of the exponential distribution
  • The memoryless property of an exponential distribution

We will have a problem session on Friday. Please read of Sections 7.1 - 7.3 for class on Monday.