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Tutorial on Distributions in R - Video  

A video tutorial on using R to sample from various distributions. It shows that larger sample sizes yield a better fit with the theoretical distribution and it shows examples from many distributions, commenting on the shapes of the histograms.

Resource URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcYh-7ZhPuU&feature=plcp

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Subject classification(s): Univariate Distributions | Probability | Statistics and Probability

Creator(s): Anthony Cookson

Contributor(s): Anthony Cookson

This resource was cataloged by Lisa Green

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