Loose-leaf For Applied Statistics In Business And Economics
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ISBN: 9781259328527
Author: David Doane, Lori Seward Senior Instructor of Operations Management
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 7, Problem 3CR
For the uniform distribution: (a) tell how many parameters it has; (b) indicate what the parameters represent: (c) describe its shape: and (d) explain when it would be used.
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