Another School Shooting

[docbennett]

Trying to calculate an exact value for an area under a curve, will lead to a life under a bridge...My quote from trying to understand statistics.

That's an easy one....calculating the area accounted for within bell-shaped curve using the formula for standard deviations above and below the mean is relatively easy...you've got T-scores and related parametric stats. It's those non-parametric statistics, or worse...any attempt to extract differentials in calculus or to do factorials that leads directly to my sitting in a squatting position under said bridge with a syringe, a dirty spoon, a PRS Zippo lighter, and a copy of Bruning and Kintz's Computational Handbook of Statistics.

 

[captdg]

brother..could you pass the Sterno, please?