A series of free Statistics Lectures with lessons, examples & solutions in videos.
This is the tenth page of the series of free video lessons, “Statistics Lectures”. These lectures cover the concepts of discrete and continuous random variables and discuss probability distributions.
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8: Probability
9: Permutations & Combinations
11: Law Of Large Numbers & The Binomial Distribution
12: Poisson Distribution
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A random variable is variable which has its value determined by a probability experiment.
A discrete random variable is a random variable which has a finite number of values.
A continuous random variable is a random variable which has an infinite number of values.
A probability histogram is a histogram with possible values on the x-axis, and probabilities on the y-axis.
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