Probability distributions
We take a small excursus to probability distributions, since they are used frequently in the book. The theoretical distributions are, both in descriptive and in mathematical statistics, of central importance:
- To approximate functions, such as a description of empirically observed frequency distributions in descriptive statistics
- The determination of probabilities for results of certain random experiments in mathematical statistics
Some important theoretical distributions are, for example, the Binomial distribution, the Poisson distribution, the hyper-geometrical distribution, the uniform distribution, the exponential distribution, the normal distribution, the distribution, and the t distribution.
Discrete probability distributions ...
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