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Use the following information to answer the next eight exercises. A distribution is given as $X \sim U(0,12)$.What is b? What does it represent?
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This is a uniform distribution. In a uniform distribution $U(a,b)$, $a$ and $b$ are the parameters of the distribution where $a$ is the minimum value and $b$ is the maximum value that the random variable $X$ can take. Show more…
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