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The Number of Power Outages at a Nuclear Power Plant

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The number of power outages at a nuclear power plant has a Poisson distribution with a mean of 6 outages per year.The probability that there will be at least 1 power outage in a year is_____.


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Standard Deviation

is a statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values around the mean (average) value.

Standard Score

A score that has been transformed to fit a given mean and standard deviation, facilitating the comparison across different tests or assessment measures.

Internal Consistency Reliability

A measure of the extent to which items on a test measure the same construct or characteristic.

Ratio Scale

A scale of measurement that has a meaningful zero point and equal intervals and thus can be manipulated by all mathematical principles.

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