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  2. Pareto distribution - Wikipedia

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    The Pareto distribution, named after the Italian civil engineer, economist, and sociologist Vilfredo Pareto, [2] is a power-law probability distribution that is used in description of social, quality control, scientific, geophysical, actuarial, and many other types of observable phenomena; the principle originally applied to describing the distribution of wealth in a society, fitting the trend ...

  3. Normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory and statistics, a normal distribution or Gaussian distribution is a type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable. The general form of its probability density function is [ 2 ] [ 3 ] f ( x ) = 1 2 π σ 2 e − ( x − μ ) 2 2 σ 2 . {\displaystyle f(x)={\frac {1}{\sqrt {2\pi \sigma ^{2 ...

  4. Generalized Pareto distribution - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) is a family of continuous probability distributions. It is often used to model the tails of another distribution. It is specified by three parameters: location , scale , and shape .

  5. List of probability distributions - Wikipedia

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    The Dirac delta function, although not strictly a probability distribution, is a limiting form of many continuous probability functions. It represents a discrete probability distribution concentrated at 0 — a degenerate distribution — it is a Distribution (mathematics) in the generalized function sense; but the notation treats it as if it ...

  6. Distribution of the product of two random variables - Wikipedia

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    A product distribution is a probability distribution constructed as the distribution of the product of random variables having two other known distributions. Given two statistically independent random variables X and Y, the distribution of the random variable Z that is formed as the product = is a product distribution.

  7. Generalized normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    The generalized normal distribution (GND) or generalized Gaussian distribution (GGD) is either of two families of parametric continuous probability distributions on the real line. Both families add a shape parameter to the normal distribution. To distinguish the two families, they are referred to below as "symmetric" and "asymmetric"; however ...

  8. Relationships among probability distributions - Wikipedia

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    Examples: If X 1 and X 2 are independent geometric random variables with probability of success p 1 and p 2 respectively, then min(X 1, X 2) is a geometric random variable with probability of success p = p 1 + p 2 − p 1 p 2. The relationship is simpler if expressed in terms probability of failure: q = q 1 q 2.

  9. Seven states of randomness - Wikipedia

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    The seven states of randomness in probability theory, fractals and risk analysis are extensions of the concept of randomness as modeled by the normal distribution. These seven states were first introduced by Benoît Mandelbrot in his 1997 book Fractals and Scaling in Finance , which applied fractal analysis to the study of risk and randomness ...