The weights for newborn babies is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 5.6 pounds and a standard deviation of 1.1 pounds. Consider a group of 1000 newborn babies: 1. How many would you expect to weigh between 4 and 8 pounds? 2. How many would you expect to weigh less than 7 pounds? 3. How many would you expect to weigh more than 6 pounds? 4. How many would you expect to weigh between 5.6 and 9 pounds?
Inverse Normal Distribution
The method used for finding the corresponding z-critical value in a normal distribution using the known probability is said to be an inverse normal distribution. The inverse normal distribution is a continuous probability distribution with a family of two parameters.
Mean, Median, Mode
It is a descriptive summary of a data set. It can be defined by using some of the measures. The central tendencies do not provide information regarding individual data from the dataset. However, they give a summary of the data set. The central tendency or measure of central tendency is a central or typical value for a probability distribution.
Z-Scores
A z-score is a unit of measurement used in statistics to describe the position of a raw score in terms of its distance from the mean, measured with reference to standard deviation from the mean. Z-scores are useful in statistics because they allow comparison between two scores that belong to different normal distributions.
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