Probability, Statistics and Random Processes

5

Standard Continuous Distributions

Prerequisites

Before you start reading this unit, you should:

• Know the concepts of mean and standard deviations and their calculations
• Know the definition of probability and the methods for calculating it

Learning Objectives

After going through this unit, you would be able to:

• To identify problems that can be modelled using normal distributions and know about other standard continuous distributions such as Exponential, Gamma, and Weibull distributions
• Know about central limit theorem and where it is applied
• Study all the chief characteristics of normal distribution
• To know the law of large numbers

INTRODUCTION

In the earlier units, we have gone through some discrete distributions. Now, let us go through ...