Wikipedia 10K Redux

Reconstructed by Reagle from Starling archive; see blog post for context.

ProbabilityDistributions

:ProbabilityAndStatistics

:ProbabilityAxioms -- ProbabilityApplications

:RandomVariable -- CumulativeDistributionFunction -- ProbabilityDensity

A probability distribution describes a special universe, a set of real numbers (see AnaLysis) and how probability is distributed among them to determine a random variable. For every random variable, there is a function called the CumulativeDistributionFunction which provides the probability that a given value is not exceeded by the random variable.

:F(x) = Pr[X<x]

Several probability distributions are so important that they have been given specific names, the NormalDistribution, the BinomialDistribution, the PoissonDistribution are just three of them.


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