Introductory Statistics (10th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321989178
Author: Neil A. Weiss
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5.2, Problem 33E
In Exercises 5.31–5.35, we have provided the
5.33 Major Hurricanes. The random variable Y is the number of major hurricanes for a randomly selected year between 1851 and 2012. Its probability distribution is as follows.
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