Probability Distributions

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