A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
10th Edition
ISBN: 9780134753119
Author: Sheldon Ross
Publisher: PEARSON
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(a) What do you understand by the term probability density function?

Write down an expression for a Gaussian probability density function of given

mean value m and standard deviation s, and show how you would obtain the

best estimate of these two quantities from a sample of population n.

(Please don't give handwritten solution or incomplete answer)

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