Reading
Carlton & Devore Chapter 3, Subsections 3.1.5 and 3.2.1. (Pages 156–157 and 162–166)
Topics
- Percentiles of a continuous distribution
- Median of a continuous distribution
- Expected value of a continuous random variable
- Expected value of a function of a continuous random variable
- Variance and standard deviation for a continuous random variable
- Chebyshev inequality
- Linearity of expectations
- Rescaling of expectation, variance, and standard deviation
Video
Media Hopper link: Numerical Properties of Continuous Distributions
Exercises
Chapter 3 Exercises 18–31. (Pages 162, and 168–170)
Choose some of these exercises and work through them yourself.