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Mean Difference of Truncated Normal Distribution
Emeritus Professor, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Department of Economics, Management and Business Law, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
- 1 Emeritus Professor, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
- 2 Department of Economics, Management and Business Law, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
- 3 Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
- 4 Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Applied Mathematics·Volume 11 (2020)·Pages 1162–1166·Published 2 November 2020·DOI10.4236/am.2020.1111078
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to broaden the knowledge of mean difference and, in particular, of an important distribution model known as truncated normal distribution, which is widely used in applied sciences and economics. In this work, we obtained the general formula of mean difference, which is not yet reported in literature, for the aforementioned distribution model and also for particular truncated cases.
KeywordsMean DifferenceTruncated Normal DistributionVariability IndexesEconomic Sciences
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