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Standard Distributions: One Graph Fits All
Author(s) -
Wagner Clifford H.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2007.00278.x
Subject(s) - graph , computer science , scaling , exponential family , mathematics , statistics , theoretical computer science , geometry
Summary Standard distributions are ubiquitous but not unique. With suitable scaling, the graph of a standard distribution serves as the graph for every distribution in the family. The standard exponential can easily be taught in elementary statistics courses.