Probability and the normal distribution basics

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During the term, you are responsible for highlighting, given the objectives of Business Analytics, one current event discussed in a news publication or news website.

Please post a summary of the event or topic, its relationship with our learning in this course, and the location of the source material. The intent is to begin a discussion about the material that will enhance learning about the topics in this course.

The article can be on Descriptive Statistics, Probability and the Normal Distribution, Sampling and Sampling Distributions, Regression Analysis, or Time Series Forecasting.

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