Applied Statistics in Business and Economics
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780077837303
Author: David Doane, Lori Seward Senior Instructor of Operations Management
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 7, Problem 12CR
For the triangular distribution: (a) tell how many parameters it has; (b) indicate what the parameters represent; (c) describe its shape in a general way (e.g., skewness); and (d) explain when it would be used.
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Applied Statistics in Business and Economics
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