Cumulative – HP Prime Graphing Calculator User Manual

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Functions and commands

Binomial

Binomial probability density function. Computes the

probability of k successes out of n trials, each with a

probability of success of p. Returns Comb(n,k) if there is no

third argument. Note that n and k are integers with

.

BINOMIAL(n,k,p)

Example: Suppose you want to know the probability that just

6 heads would appear during 20 tosses of a fair coin.

BINOMIAL(20,6,0.5)

returns

0.0369644165039.

Poisson

Poisson probability mass function. Computes the probability

of k occurrences of an event during a future interval given ,

the mean of the occurrences of that event during that interval

in the past. For this function, k is a non-negative integer and

is a real number.

POISSON(

,k)

Example: Suppose that on average you get 20 emails a day.

What is the probability that tomorrow you will get 15?

POISSON(20,15)

returns

0.0516488535318.

Cumulative

Normal

Cumulative normal distribution function. Returns the lower-tail

probability of the normal probability density function for the

value x, given the mean, and standard deviation, of a

normal distribution. If only one argument is supplied, it is

taken as x, and the assumption is that =0 and =1.

NORMALD_CDF

([

,

,]x)

Example:

NORMALD_CDF(0,1,2)

returns

0.977249868052.

T

Cumulative Student's t distribution function. Returns the lower-

tail probability of the Student's t-probability density function

at x, given n degrees of freedom.

STUDENT_CDF

(n,x)

Example:

STUDENT_CDF(

3,–3.2)

returns

0.0246659214814.

k n

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