Special software is required to use some of the files in this section: .m and .xls.
Derivation of F dist (PDF)
MATLAB® Files
Supporting files.
| FILES |
DESCRIPTIONS |
| Weird country (M) |
A simulation of the Weird country, in which people giving birth stop when they have their first girl |
| Boston subway interview (M) |
A simulation of the process of waiting to interview a republican at a Boston subway stop |
| Function of a random variable (M) |
Illustrates how a function of a random variable might behave |
Microsoft® Excel Files
Excel files.
| FILES |
Topics |
| Normal probability tool (XLS) |
Creates normally distributed samples and makes normal probability plots |
| Recreating Weibull's plot for Bofors steel (XLS) |
Attempt to recreate Figure 1 in Weibull, Waloddi. "A Statistical Distribution Function of Wide Applicability." Journal of Applied Mechanics 18, no. 3 (1951): 293-297. |