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A recent General Social Survey asked "How many people at your work place are close friends?" The 756 responses had a mean of 2.76, standard deviation of 3.65, and a mode of 0. Would the Poisson distribution describe these data well? Why or why not?

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No, for this kind of data we use normal distribution

Explanation:

Since Normal appropriation is called as 'Ordinary' as it is the most frequent distribution. In the event that example implies determined over a fixed example size n(n>=30 for any distribution and any natural number n for regularly dispersed populace) from an endless populace follows precisely normal distribution.

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