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Probability Distributions

Author: mary daunis

Mean of a Probability Distribution

When data are provided in a probability distribution table, you can calculate the mean by multiplying each data value by its corresponding probability and then summing those values - proper rounding procedures require that you do not round any of those intermediate product calculations - save the rounding until the end, after adding all of the products together -