Chapter 17. Probability Distributions
Many statistical tests work by calculating a test
statistic and then comparing the test statistic to a value from a
theoretical distribution. R provides a set of functions to calculate
densities, distributions, and quantiles for common statistical
distributions. You can also generate random values from these
distributions. This section describes how to use these functions (using
the normal distribution as an example) and then lists most functions
included with the R stats
library.
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