So, what's your favorite probability distribution, /sci/?

>>8644749

None of the ones in the picture are my favorite. The Pareto distribution is my favorite.

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>>8644755
> figure for reference

>>8644755
I just posted a random pic I found on Google. Pareto is one of my favorites as well.

Gamma is muh fave, bcoz a good model
for most data, but Beta is a close second
for the same reason.

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I can contribute pic related and this

http://www.math.wm.edu/~leemis/2008amstat.pdf#3

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poison or cauchy

>>8645324

Oh, I like Poisson too. So many good ones to choose from.

>>8644749
What is that figure from? I need a good reference on stats and probability since my college course had no book and was taught by a foreigner who could not speak english (he was a solid guy though)

[math]\Beta[/math] distribution

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Dirichlet. It's a distribution with support over the simplex of points in [math]\mathbb{R}^\text{# of shape parameters}[/math] whose coordinates are positive and add up to one, so in a sense it's a distribution over multinomial distributions.

I wish I understood the Dirichlet process.

chi^2

>>8645324
half of them look virtually the same

>>8644749

scale free

>>8647278
What is that?

>>8647291
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_distribution

undefined (trends to infinite) variance

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Cauchy

>>8644749
the alpha distribution because it reminds me of my alpha social status

who /Gaussian/

wigner

>>8644749
>not including tracy-widom distribution

pleb pic