Peter Flom wrote:
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/6/2004 10:26:11 AM >>>
> > What would be good similar examples for
> > distributions that are symmetric but not normal (for
> > students who aren't yet sophisticated enough for the
> > Cauchy distribution to
> > be a good example)? Dice sums would be an obvious
> > choice (though of course
> > they converge to normal as the number of throws increases), but I
> think
> > more are needed.
> > .
>
> How about the uniform distribution?
Not easy to find in the real world (though not impossible).
-Robert Dawson
.
.
=================================================================
Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the
problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at:
. http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ .
=================================================================
