Describe the difference in shape between a gamma(shape = 5, rate= 10) distribution and a beta(shape = 10, rate= 5) distribution. I.e., are the skew, mean, and interquartile ranges of the two distributions the same, and if one is larger, which one?
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!
Describe the difference in shape between a gamma(shape = 5, rate= 10) distribution and a beta(shape = 10, rate= 5) distribution. I.e., are the skew,
Given:-
and
we have to find mean,skew and interquartile range
formula for gamma disrtibution-
mean=
skew=
for interquartile range we have to find median first but the median cannot be calculated in a simple closed form.
now,
mean= = 0.5
skew = 0.89
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