User:IssaRice/List of probability distributions
List of distributions that make sense to me:
- uniform
- bernoulli
- binomial
- geometric
- beta
- poisson
- exponential
- gamma (at least when alpha is a positive integer a.k.a. Erlang distribution)
List of distributions that i don't understand:
- pareto
- normal
- log normal
- chi-squared
- student's t
- yule-simon https://gist.github.com/riceissa/041f418cccec32287008020d850d6daa
also, hi
| Ask for time until next event | Ask for time until nth event | Ask for number of events in fixed interval | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discrete version | Geometric distribution | Negative binomial distribution? | Binomial distribution |
| Continuous version | Exponential distribution | Gamma distribution | Poisson distribution |
Bernoulli
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---------------- Binomial------>Normal
/ |
v v
Beta Poisson Geometric
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Exponential <----
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Gamma
means I am aware of a derivation of B using A.