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Chapter 03 - Correction when explaining ppf

Open Lucas-Okamura opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

There is an issue on chapter 03, in the following paragraphs "(...) saying that 50% of the mass of the standard normal distribution is below 0.0." and "(...) In other words, 0.05% of the mass falls above this value."

It should be "(...) saying that 50% of the mass of the standard normal distribution is below the sum between the mean and 0.0 times standard deviation." and "(...) In other words, 0.5% of the mass falls above this value.", respectively.

Lucas-Okamura avatar Jul 26 '22 00:07 Lucas-Okamura

I made PR #257 to fix the second suggestion from @Lucas-Okamura's comment.

I left the first suggestion to @matheusfacure since it looks like a wording issue.

But agree with Lucas since the standard normal distribution doesn't imply that the distribution's mean is 0 (although it's pretty common to use a distribution with mean=0 to facilitate calculations and examples maybe that's why Matheus wrote "below 0.0").

donelianc avatar Jul 29 '22 08:07 donelianc