ABSTRACT
Random numbers are used in statistics to investigate the characteristics of different population distributions. We will only be studying the characteristics of the normal distribution. This is because many of the variables that we measure are normally distributed. The statistics we use to test hypotheses about population characteristics based on random samples are created based on certain assumptions and characteristics of the normal distribution. Other population distributions exist (wiebull, hypergeometric, poisson, and elliptical), but we will not be studying their characteristics and associated statistics in the chapter exercises.
