MSc (Statistics), McMaster University

Monthly Archives: October 2016

Distributions and their Relationships

Since we are beginning to venture into random variables, and soon distribution functions, I thought I’d share an infographic showing just some distributions and how they relate to each other. By the end of your studies, you will be familiar with a fraction of this graph, and Stats 2D03 will only cover some basic important ones, but […]

Advice on studying for the test

Like I mentioned in tutorial, your textbook has a list of problems in at the end of each chapter, broken into 3 sections: Problems, Theory, and Self-Test. While the problems have answers for you to check, the Self-Test offers suggested solutions, which can really help walk you through some questions. The theory, while useful, has […]