The lambda of this distribution is The probability that the length of a phone call is longer than 14 is P(x ≥ 14) = The probability that the length of a phone call is shorter than 8 is P(x ≤ 8) =
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!
Suppose that the length of long distance phone calls, measured in minutes, is known to have an exponential distribution with the average length of a call equal to $11 minutes.
- The lambda of this distribution is
- The
probability that the length of a phone call is longer than 14 is P(x ≥ 14) = - The probability that the length of a phone call is shorter than 8 is P(x ≤ 8) =
- The probability that the length of a phone call is between 9 and 13 is P(9 ≤ x ≤ 13) =
- The 54th percentile is a phone call that lasts minutes.
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