Elementary Statistics: A Step-by-Step Approach with Formula Card 9th Edition

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Chapter 6 - The Normal Distribution - 6-4 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution - Exercises 6-4 - Page 360: 3

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A correction for continuity is a correction employed when a continuous distribution is used to approximate a discrete distribution. Even with very large $n$ in a binomial distribution, the distribution is still discrete, thus to use a normal distribution, which is continuous, to approximate the binomial distribution, we need to use the correction for continuity.
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