Distributions

Probability distributions are a way of describing all possible outcomes a random variable can take within a sample space. There are lots of probability distributions, With the solar cell manufacturing example, we might expect to see something similar to a normal distribution.

The normal distribution and using scipy to generate distributions

The normal distribution is also called the Gaussian distribution or the bell curve and shows up often. This is something we could see when taking measurements from a biological population (like dimensions of plants) or measurements of a manufacturing process, like the efficiency of solar cells coming off a manufacturing line. We can generate most common distributions in Python with scipy. We want to first make sure we have scipy installed: conda install -c conda-forge scipy -y. Then we can create and plot a normal distribution:

import numpy as np
from scipy.stats import norm
x = np.linspace(-4, 4, 100)
plt.plot(x, norm...