Skewed distribution

Glossary: Statistics

Glossary: Statistics

Certain or Uncertain You may know the values your variables will take in the time frame of your model — they are certain, or what statisticians call “deterministic”. Conversely, you may not know the values they will take — they are uncertain, or “stochastic”. If your variables are uncertain you will need to describe the […]

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Uncertainty – lack of information

Uncertainty – lack of information

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Monte Carlo Simulation

Every item in a budget or a profit and loss account represents in reality a probability distribution.

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