16COMMON PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS
In this chapter, you’ll look at a number of standard probability distributions that exist for dealing with commonly occurring random phenomena in statistical modeling. These distributions follow the same natural rules as the examples presented in Chapter 15, and they’re useful because their properties are well understood and documented. In fact, they are so ubiquitous that most statistical software packages have corresponding built-in functionality for their evaluation, and R is no exception. Several of these distributions represent an essential ingredient in traditional statistical hypothesis testing, which ...
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