continuous variables. Distributions with special properties or for especially important applications are given specific names. A probability distribution is a...

statistics, a normal distribution or Gaussian distribution is a type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable. The general form...

lognormal) distribution is a continuous probability distribution of a random variable whose logarithm is normally distributed. Thus, if the random variable X is...

A random variable (also called random quantity, aleatory variable, or stochastic variable) is a mathematical formalization of a quantity or object which...

offering insights into the behavior of gamma-distributed random variables. The gamma distribution is integral to modeling a range of phenomena due to its flexible...

as exponents of the variable and its complement to 1, respectively, and control the shape of the distribution. The beta distribution has been applied to...

product distribution is a probability distribution constructed as the distribution of the product of random variables having two other known distributions. Given...

correlated real-valued random variables, each of which clusters around a mean value. The multivariate normal distribution of a k-dimensional random vector...

the Bernoulli distribution, named after Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, is the discrete probability distribution of a random variable which takes the...

Poisson random variable; the distribution of k is a Poisson distribution. The Poisson distribution is also the limit of a binomial distribution, for which...