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density function

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noun

  1. statistics short for probability density function

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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We wish now to be able to develop confidence intervals for the population parameter "p" from the binomial probability density function.

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Just like a set of data, a probability density function has a mean and a standard deviation that describes the data set.

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We now investigate the sampling distribution for another important parameter we wish to estimate; p from the binomial probability density function.

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A probability density function is a mathematical formula that calculates probabilities for specific types of events, what we have been calling experiments.

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To calculate probabilities for an exponential probability density function, we need to use the cumulative density function.

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