SOCR EduMaterials Activities Distributions

Goals

• Using SOCR to compute probabilities or critical values for different distributions
• Observe the shape of the distributions by varying their parameters
• Explore relations among various distributions (e.g. Poisson-binomial, binomial-hypergeometric, normal-binomial, normal-Poisson)

Applet

To go to the SOCR applet enter this URL in your browser's address field: http://www.SOCR.ucla.edu/htmls/SOCR_Distributions.html

Activities

Here we use Normal distribution (mean=5, sigma=4) as an example

• Step 1: Set up parameters! Select the Normal Distribution from the drop-down list on the top-left. Set Mean = 5