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college, validate it on sub-sets of the 1000 students that were not included when creating the prediction model, and then use the model to make predictions about new students.

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Random variable Xis continuous if probability density function (pdf) fis continuous at all but a nite number of points and possesses the following properties: f(x) 0, for all x, R 1 1 f(x) dx= 1, P(a<X b) = R b a f(x) dx The (cumulative) distribution function (cdf) for random variable Xis F(x) = P(X x) = Z x 1 f(t) dt; and has properties lim x ...

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