This example considers a data set given in Lawless (1982). The data are the number of days it took rats painted with a carcinogen to develop carcinoma. The last two observations are censored. Maximum ...

The normal distribution is the probability distribution that plots all of its values along a symmetrical bell curve, with the highest probabilities centered around the mean value and tapering out ...

parameters for the normal curve. The normal parameters and are estimated by the sample mean ()and the sample standard deviation (). a chi-square goodness-of-fit test. Compared to the usual cutoff ...