Homework Help: statistics

Posted by Trasie on Friday, November 9, 2012 at 10:43am.

Which of the following situations can be best modeled using a continuous distribution?
a) Number of heads in 10 flips of coin.
b) Number of customers/hr.
c) Time between arrivals of two customers.
d) Yes or no answer.
e) Number of product defects/hr.

statistics - MathGuru, Friday, November 9, 2012 at 6:20pm
Think of a continuous distribution having an infinite possibility of values, such as time, weight, and height. Look at each of your choices and see which best fits this.

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