Concept information
Preferred term
probability distribution
Definition(s)
- In probability theory and statistics, a probability distribution is the mathematical function that gives the probabilities of occurrence of different possible outcomes for an experiment. It is a mathematical description of a random phenomenon in terms of its sample space and the probabilities of events (subsets of the sample space). (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_distribution)
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- beta distribution
- binomial distribution
- conditional distribution
- Dirichlet distribution
- discrete distribution
- exponential distribution
- gamma distribution
- Gaussian distribution
- geometric distribution
- hypergeometric distribution
- infinitely divisible law
- joint distribution
- log-normal distribution
- Pareto distribution
- Poisson distribution
- Rayleigh distribution
- statistical distribution
- Voigt profile
- Weibull distribution
Synonym(s)
- probability law
In other languages
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French
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distribution de probabilité
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-P3B1V7VG-K
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