but, of course, if you start with say ... april ... at the far left on the baseline, you don't get an nd ... january is not necessarily a natural end point like ... for a 30 item test, 0 to 30 might be
here is a chart from the weather channel ... for sydney australia ...
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/vacationplanner/climatology/monthly/ASXX0112
At 06:21 PM 10/24/2002, Edward Dreyer wrote:
In planning a Spring trip to the Adriatic coast, I went to the Weather Channel and printed the
monthly average highs and lows for Tulsa, OK. Both distributions look approximately normal to me. Ditto for Zagreb and Split in Croatia.
Edward C. Dreyer
Emeritus, The University of Tulsa
go to http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/climatology/
At 03:36 PM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
My class is starting normal distributions today, and I asked them to name some distributions and say whether they were normal.One student suggested seasons, such as high temperatures. Those are more nearly cyclical, but then I got to wondering if there are any seasonal or climate phenomena that are normally distributed. I can't think of any, but I wonder if I'm overlooking an obvious example. Any suggestions? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com "Honesty always gives you the advantage of surprise." -- /Yes, Prime Minister/ . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================__________________________________ Dr. Edward C. Dreyer Professor Emeritus Department of Political Science The University of Tulsa __________________________________
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