Lesson 13 of 20 · about 15 min
Continuous random variables
A bus comes every 10 minutes and you arrive at a random moment. What's the chance you wait exactly 3 minutes? Zero! When a quantity can be any number, probability becomes area under a curve. You'll shade areas, meet the uniform and exponential distributions, and learn how computers turn random.random() into any distribution you like.
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In this lesson you'll learn:
- Probability density (PDF)
- Exponential distribution
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