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| Sep 13, 2019 at 11:58 | answer | added | kjetil b halvorsen♦ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 13, 2019 at 11:54 | history | edited | kjetil b halvorsen♦ |
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| Dec 28, 2015 at 16:07 | comment | added | Nick Cox | It's notionally if not literally a cumulative probability. In some contexts it is also called a plotting position, especially when there is a graph in view or in mind. | |
| Dec 28, 2015 at 14:34 | comment | added | dsaxton | Maybe just "left tail probability," "area to the left" or something like that. This isn't a name for the probability, but the distribution function is the function $F$ whose value at $\beta$ is equal to the probability you're referring to, at least for continuous distributions. | |
| Dec 28, 2015 at 14:21 | history | asked | Michael M | CC BY-SA 3.0 |