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  2. Distribution (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The support of the distribution associated with the Dirac measure at a point is the set {}. [12] If the support of a test function does not intersect the support of a distribution T then = A distribution T is 0 if and

  3. History of probability - Wikipedia

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    The mathematical sense of the term is from 1718. In the 18th century, the term chance was also used in the mathematical sense of "probability" (and probability theory was called Doctrine of Chances). This word is ultimately from Latin cadentia, i.e. "a fall, case".

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  5. List of probability distributions - Wikipedia

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    The uniform distribution or rectangular distribution on [a,b], where all points in a finite interval are equally likely, is a special case of the four-parameter Beta distribution. The Irwin–Hall distribution is the distribution of the sum of n independent random variables, each of which having the uniform distribution on [0,1].

  6. Distribution (number theory) - Wikipedia

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    In algebra and number theory, a distribution is a function on a system of finite sets into an abelian group which is analogous to an integral: it is thus the algebraic analogue of a distribution in the sense of generalised function. The original examples of distributions occur, unnamed, as functions φ on Q/Z satisfying [1]

  7. Probability distribution - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory and statistics, a probability distribution is the mathematical function that gives the probabilities of occurrence of possible outcomes for an experiment. [1] [2] 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). [3]

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  9. History of statistics - Wikipedia

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    This book went through many editions and translations in later years, and it became the standard reference work for scientists in many disciplines. In 1935, this book was followed by The Design of Experiments, which was also widely used. In addition to analysis of variance, Fisher named and promoted the method of maximum likelihood estimation.