Probability Distributions

Explore an introduction to probability distributions. This includes histograms, empirical frequency distributions, and parametric theoretical probability distributions. Discover differences between distributions for continuous and discrete variables. Discover a handful of common parametric distributions.

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Topics

  • probability distribution
  • empirical distribution
  • theoretical distribution
  • discrete variable
  • continuous variable
  • probability mass function
  • probability density function
  • histogram
  • parametric probability distributions
  • Discrete Uniform Distribution
  • Continuous Uniform Distribution
  • Bernoulli Distribution
  • Normal Distribution
  • Binomial Distribution
  • Log-normal Distribution
  • Geometric Distribution
  • Student’s t Distribution
  • Hypergeometric Distribution
  • Gamma Distribution
  • Negative Binomial Distribution
  • Beta Distribution
  • Poisson Distribution
  • Weibull Distribution