Statistics and Probability · Distributions

Common continuous distributions

The handful of continuous shapes, Uniform, Normal, Exponential, that keep showing up in real measurements and waiting times.

Also known as: Uniform distribution, Normal distribution, Gaussian, Exponential distribution.

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• Continuous random variables: A random variable that can take any value in a range, described by a density curve instead of a list of probabilities.

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• Central limit theorem: Why the average of almost any large sample ends up looking approximately Normal, regardless of the original distribution's shape.

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• Central limit theorem: Why the average of almost any large sample ends up looking approximately Normal, regardless of the original distribution's shape.