Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:55:42 +1100, "Glen Barnett"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> A straight line CDF would imply the data is uniformly distributed,
> >> that is, the probability of one event is the same as the probability
> >> of any other event. The slope of the line would be the probability of
> >> an event.
> >
> >I doubt that - if the data were distributed uniformly on [0,1/2), say, then
> >the slope of the line would be 2!
>
> I suspect he meant probability density.
I guess that's actually correct - the slope of the pdf is zero. However, I'm
fairly certain that's not what he meant.
Glen
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