Kind of theoretical distribution

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A retail manager in a discount store wants to establish a policy of the number of cashiers to have on hand and also when to open a new cash register. The first step in this process is to determine the rate at which customers arrive at the cash register. One day, the man- ager observes the following times (in minutes) between arrivals of customers at the cash registers:

0.1	2.6	2.9	0.5
1.2	1.8	4.8	3.3
1.7	0.2	1.5	2.0
4.2	0.6	1.0	2.6
0.9	3.4	1.7	0.4

a Plot a CDF based on these data.

b What kind of theoretical distribution do you think would be appropriate for these data? Why?

c Calculate the sample mean and sample standard deviation of the data, and use these to estimate parameters for the theoretical distribution chosen in part b.

d Plot a few points from the CDF of your theoretical distribution, and draw a smooth curve through them. How does this theoretical curve compare to the data-based CDF?

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