Hi there, If I have a statistics distribution, and I have the information of what the y value is when x = 0 (at the center of the distribution), and know what the y value is when the concavity of the graph changes at x = +SD (standard deviation), and then know that the y value as x approaches infinity is 0 and my data looks like so:
| x | | | | | x | | | x ----------------------------- How would I alter a distribution equation so that I would have the complete graph which would look like so, knowing that not all the time would the answer be a normal distribution: | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x ----------------------------- Statistics is an extremely interesting field to me, and I am very curious about its manipulations. I am a medical student in philadelphia who is currently being educated in biostatistics and I am simply interested in more statistics. thank you for your time, Micah >===== Original Message From "E. Jacquelin Dietz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >Micah, > >I'd suggest that you post your question to the statistics education list >edstat. Send your message to . > >Jacquelin Dietz > >aka25 wrote: >> >> Hi Professor, >> >> I am a student from philadelphia with a question for you on statistical >> distributions. >> >> If I know something is on a symmetrical distribution, and its standard >> deviation is the distance from the center at which the concavity of the graph >> changes. >> >> Then I additionally know the value on the y axis for the center as N, and I >> know the value on the y axis for the first standard deviation as M, then how >> would I manipulate a symmetrical distribution to match this data? >> >> thanks, >> >> Micah > >-- >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > E. Jacquelin Dietz (919) 515-1929 (phone) > Department of Statistics, Box 8203 (919) 515-1169 (FAX) > North Carolina State University > Raleigh, NC 27695-8203 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Street address for FedEx: > Room 210E Patterson Hall, 2501 Founders Drive >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
