Lecture 12: The Normal distribution, quantiles, and credible intervals

Lecture 12: The Normal distribution, quantiles, and credible intervals#

Learning objectives#

  • Introduce the standard Normal distribution.

  • Introduce the Normal distribution.

  • Introduce quantiles.

  • Introduce central credible intervals.

  • Fitting the parameters of the Normal using the method of moments.

  • Comparing two Normal distributions.

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