Examples of Continuous Probability Distributions
• Not all continuous random variables are normally distributed!! • It is important to evaluate how well the data are approximated by a normal distribution. Are my data normally distributed? 1. Look at the histogram! Does it appear bell shaped? 2. Compute descriptive summary measures—are mean,
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