Title: 38_1 Continuous Probability Distributions
Course: HELM Workbooks 2023-2024 > Section: HELM 38: Continuous Probability Distributions

It is often possible to model real systems by using the same or similar random experiments and their associated random variables. Random variables may be classified in two distinct categories called discrete random variables and continuous random variables.

Discrete random variables can take values which are discrete and which can be written in the form of a list. In contrast, continuous random variables can take values anywhere within a specified range.

Here you become familiar with several  continuous random variables and their associated probability distributions. We make no attempt to cover the whole of this large and important branch of statistics. The most commonly met continuous random variables in engineering are the Uniform, Exponential, Normal and Weibull distributions, which will be introduced in later quizzes.