Quotes About Distribution

The t-distribution is actually a series, or "family," of probability density functions that vary according to the size of our sample.

Specifically, the more data we have in our sample, the more "degrees of freedom" we have when determining the appropriate distribution against which to evaluate our results.

In some ways, the VaR debacle is the opposite of the Schlitz example in Chapter 5. Schlitz was operating with a known probability distribution

Ése era el mundo de la escasez. Ahora, con la distribución y la venta digital, estamos entrando en un mundo de abundancia. Las diferencias son profundas.

The natural model for music and anything else where the marginal costs of manufacturing and distribution are close to zero is variable pricing.

Estos millones de ventas marginales constituyen un negocio rentable. Sin un espacio de ventas que se debe pagar, y sin costes de fabricación y distribución, como en el caso de los servicios exclusivamente digitales de iTunes, un producto de nicho vendido sólo es otra venta más, con los mismos márgenes de ganancia (o mejores) que un producto de éxito.

Más del 99 por ciento de los álbumes musicales existentes en el mercado no están disponibles en Wal-Mart.

En una era sin limitaciones de espacio físico y otros obstáculos que dificulten la distribución, los bienes y servicios especializados pueden ser económicamente tan atractivos como los artículos generalistas.

la diferencia entre pagar unos centavos por distribuir un contenido virtual, y los dólares que requiere hacerlo con camiones, almacenes y estanterías.

For physical goods, the twentieth-century limits to choice were based on three distribution bottlenecks—you could only buy things that passed all of the three tests: 1. The products were popular enough for manufacturers to make. 2. The products were popular enough for retailers to carry. 3. The products were popular enough for you to find (via advertising or prominent placement in stores near you). As Amazon showed, the Web could help with the latter two, right out of the gate.

It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution - that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world.

Las empresas capitalistas compran insumos de otras que tienen menores costes que ellas para producir esos mismos insumos, y venden su propia producción al intermediario que mejor puede llevar a cabo su distribución. Sin embargo, una economía socialista puede prescindir de las ventajas de la especialización, y además por motivos muy racionales, debido a las muy diferentes circunstancias bajo las que operan.

more than a third of Europe's land mass consists of islands and peninsulas, only 2 percent of Africa's land mass consists of islands and peninsulas.

The range of human knowledge and expertise is limited for any given person or for any manageably-sized collection of administrators. Only a certain number of links in the great chain of production and distribution can be mastered and operated efficiently by the same set of people. Beyond some point, there are other people with different skills and experience who can perform the next step in the sequence more cheaply or more effectively—

La economía trata de quién consigue qué y por qué. En

This is my next lesson. If the future is here, but just not evenly distributed yet, find seeds of that future, study them, and ask yourself how things will be different when they are the new normal. What happens if this trend keeps going?

Socialism for social democrats, especially in Scandinavia, was a distributive concept. It was about making sure that wealth and assets were not disproportionately gathered into the hands of a privileged few. And this, as we have seen, was in essence a moral matter:

To be clear, concluding in brief: there is enough for all. So there should be no more people living in poverty. And there should be no more billionaires. Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise. Enough is as good as a feast—or better.

Most Americans are unaware that the average income of the bottom 50 percent of their population has declined over a thirty-year period.

In 1864, two years after the Homestead Act passed, he advocated taking the plantation owners' land as well and distributing it to "free, industrious, and honest farmers,

Across every inhabited continent, just as on the Great Plains, mass land clearing and wheat farming had led to significant drying, exhausting the soils and throwing fragile ecosystems out of whack. Combined with the market forces controlling distribution, human-caused climate change joined with natural weather patterns to wreak absolute havoc.

Il buon senso è la cosa meglio distribuita al mondo. Ciascuno infatti pensa di esserne così ben provvisto che anche coloro che di tutte le altre cose non si contentano mai, di questa sono soliti non volerne più di quanto ne hanno.

There are two extremes to be avoided, one is the disposition of the rich to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the poor. . . . The other is . . . the anxiety of poor people to get possessions of the accumulations of the rich, and to have them divided among them, and a general leveling take place.

Mine is a parish like all the rest.  They're all alike.  Those of to-day I mean.  I was saying so only yesterday to M. le Curé de Norenfontes—that good and evil are probably evenly distributed, but on such a low plane, very low Indeed! Or if you like they lie one over the other; like oil and water they never mix.  M. le Curé only laughed at me.