Continuous Variable: can take on any value between two specified values. Obtained by measuring. Discrete Variable: not continuous variable (cannot take on any value between two specified values).

A bell curve is a graph used to visualize the distribution of a set of chosen values across a specified group that tend to have central, normal values that peak, with low and high extremes tapering ...

We study the asymptotic covariance function of the sample mean and quantile, and derive a new and surprising characterization of the normal distribution: the asymptotic covariance between the sample ...

The distances between two holes cut into 50 steel sheets are measured and saved as values of the variable DISTANCE in the following data set: * data sheets; input distance @@; label distance='Distance ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 39, No. 2 (1990), pp. 255-257 (3 pages) This paper proposes a logistic approximation to the normal tail probability and ...