Re: area under the curve

2002-01-31 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Glen Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dennis Roberts wrote: >> unless you had a table comparable to the z table for area under the normal >> distribution ... for EACH different level of skewness ... an exact answer >> is not possible in a way that would be expl

Re: area under the curve

2002-01-31 Thread Glen Barnett
Dennis Roberts wrote: > > unless you had a table comparable to the z table for area under the normal > distribution ... for EACH different level of skewness ... an exact answer > is not possible in a way that would be explainable Even if you specify level of skewness, an exact answer is still no

Re: area under the curve

2002-01-30 Thread Jay Warner
rmal, then but you didn't say that. Jay Melady Preece wrote: A student wants to know how one can calculate the area under the curve for skewed distributions.  Can someone give me an answer about when a distribution is too skewed to use the z table? Melady -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Wa

Re: area under the curve

2002-01-30 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 30 Jan 2002 08:02:51 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Melady Preece) wrote: > A student wants to know how one can calculate the area under the >curve for skewed distributions. Can someone give me an answer about >when a distribution is too skewed to use the z table? It would be conv

Re: area under the curve

2002-01-30 Thread Dennis Roberts
C2 -0.9946 8.0984-0.7127 0.3921 At 07:27 AM 1/30/02 -0800, Melady Preece wrote: >A student wants to know how one can calculate the area under the curve for >skewed distributions. Can someone give me an answer about when a >distribution is too skewed to use

Re: area under the curve

2002-01-30 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
> Melady Preece wrote: > > A student wants to know how one can calculate the area under the curve > for skewed distributions. Can someone give me an answer about when a > distribution is too skewed to use the z table? You can only use the z table directly to find t

area under the curve

2002-01-30 Thread Melady Preece
A student wants to know how one can calculate the area under the curve for skewed distributions.  Can someone give me an answer about when a distribution is too skewed to use the z table?   Melady