Understanding Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) - Part 1

PART 1: In which we seek to understand the concepts of a cumulative distribution function (CDF). Relevant to any class at any level of probability or statistics. Topics include...

0:44 breakdown of the term "CDF"
2:28 3 mathematic rules for a function to be classified as a CDF
4:45 integrating the PDF to obtain the CDF
5:45 why we need a CDF at all!

Michael is making YouTube videos to help students learning probability and statistics, many for the first time. His goal is to break down a seemingly complicated topic into understandable, relevant, and accurate components. Rather than learning to plug and chug, then panicking when a new situation arises, understanding the concepts will help students adapt to new problem types and be able to reason their way through any test.

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[nicolaszito]

DUDE. YOU. ARE. THE. MAN. Keep it up, extremely helpful! Was so confused about this topic until I saw your videos.

[syedhamzaafzalashraf]

You indeed are the best at explaining this. It's spoonfeeding, exactly how I like it!

[willcowan]

Your teaching is actually amazing. You clearly explain the prerequisites of this video, and clearly explain every concept in a basic sense, even if they seem simple (e.g. explain 'cumulative', 'distribution' and 'function'). So many teachers/lecturers forget that working at high levels of abstraction (using lots of technical terms) can often be overwhelming, and it just isn't necessary... I wish everything was taught this way, good job.

[meisterspectrom]

Really the best video on this topic. So many videos use jargon as if I've studyed math since birth. You've made this super comprehensible, thank you.

[shashwat]

Sir your explanation was really great and helpful. Thank you Sir.
Sir, what is the word that you wrote after X in the line describing PDF's?

[hxi]

wow amazing basic explanation, better than most college professors

[robbiedeegan]

Thank you for this. Helped clear up a lot of questions for me that were distracting me from learning!

[gencao]

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[sunnylefabulous]

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[msalihturan.]

Very consice and amazing explanation, many thanks for this!

[stevenakomian]

Thanks for the video, after listening to it; I would like to know if you have an illustrative video on cumulative distribution function (CDF) application to the econometric software : Stata. Otherwise documentation would not be of great interest.

[faizulislam]

Your explanation was amazing!
plz upload videos of 'MOMENTS'

[Study-vkfs]

Clear and fun explanation. Keep at it.

[kitty]

Have a stats midterm coming up, thank you for this!

[OX]

Thank you man, you explained it better than my 3000 dollars course

[NguyenTastic]

This was very helpful, thanks for uploading!

[joekelly]

I liked the video but was hella bothered by misspelling distribution

[seriouscoder]

Using cdf as sigmoid function in neural networks give us abit better result

[escobar]

was that a call of duty hit markers at the beginning? lmao

[Kit]

very helpful but this man does not blink??