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2001-07-29 Thread dennis roberts
bet you think you know what these are ... do you? http://community.webshots.com/photo/6073830/6073886GMgEftrGUI == dennis roberts, penn state university educational psychology, 8148632401 http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~

Re: web page to help use normal table

2001-07-29 Thread EAKIN MARK E
Cantor, Thanks, I have fixed this. The reason for the page was to show my students how to use a particular normal table. I had noticed several of my business students having trouble using the normal table. I hope that this page illustrates most of the different ways that probabilities can

Re: Excel for simulating normal distribution

2001-07-29 Thread David Winsemius
I quite agree with those who said it would be easier in a real stats package. However, if you want a start, and feel that Excel is familiar ground, here goes. The rand() function will generate random numbers from a uniform distribution on the interval [0,1]. You can convert that to a randomly dist

Re: Excel for simulating normal distribution

2001-07-29 Thread dennis roberts
again ... in something like minitab ... MTB > rand 1 c1; command is random ... say how many ... and where to put them SUBC> norm 50 10. ... the subc just tells minitab what distribution to sample from ... from dozens that's all there is to it THEN ... you can do what you want with the