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Probability distribution

 * Probability distribution
 * Probability distribution


 * Statical parameter
 * Statistical parameter
 * Location parameter
 * Statistical dispersion
 * Scale parameter
 * Shape parameter


 * Statical Probablity Functions
 * Probability density function
 * Cumulative distribution function
 * Survival function
 * Failure rate
 * Characteristic function (probability theory)


 * Statical Distributions
 * List of probability distributions


 * Related to real-valued quantities that grow linearly
 * Normal distribution


 * Related to positive real-valued quantities that grow exponentially
 * Log-normal distribution
 * Pareto distribution


 * Related to real-valued quantities that are assumed to be uniformly distributed over a (possibly unknown) region
 * Uniform distribution (discrete)
 * Uniform distribution (continuous)


 * Related to Bernoulli trials (yes/no events, with a given probability)
 * Bernoulli distribution
 * Binomial distribution
 * Negative binomial distribution
 * Geometric distribution
 * Hypergeometric distribution
 * Beta-binomial distribution


 * Related to categorical outcomes (events with K possible outcomes, with a given probability for each outcome)
 * Categorical distribution
 * Multinomial distribution


 * Related to events in a Poisson process (events that occur independently with a given rate)
 * Poisson distribution
 * Exponential distribution
 * Gamma distribution


 * Related to the absolute values of vectors with normally distributed components
 * Rayleigh distribution
 * Rice distribution


 * Related to normally distributed quantities operated with sum of squares (for hypothesis testing)
 * Chi-squared distribution
 * Student's t-distribution
 * F-distribution
 * Coefficient of determination


 * Useful as conjugate prior distributions in Bayesian inference
 * Beta distribution
 * Dirichlet distribution
 * Wishart distribution