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Hassani, Mehdi; Kippen, Rebecca; Mills, Terence – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2016
Life tables are mathematical tables that document probabilities of dying and life expectancies at different ages in a society. Thus, the life table contains some essential features of the health of a population. Probability is often regarded as a difficult branch of mathematics. Life tables provide an interesting approach to introducing concepts…
Descriptors: Probability, Mathematical Concepts, Death, Mortality Rate
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Jance, Marsha L.; Thomopoulos, Nick T. – American Journal of Business Education, 2011
The paper shows how to find the min and max extreme interval values for the exponential and triangular distributions from the min and max uniform extreme interval values. Tables are provided to show the min and max extreme interval values for the uniform, exponential, and triangular distributions for different probabilities and observation sizes.
Descriptors: Intervals, Probability, Observation, Statistical Distributions
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Brewer, James K.; Owen, Patricia W. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1973
This note presents the results of a survey of the power of statistical tests appearing in the Journal Of Educational Measurement from winter, 1969 through fall, 1971. (Author)
Descriptors: Computation, Educational Research, Guidelines, Probability