Probability Tags

Probability Tags

Sample space

  • Outcomes & events
  • Probability: direct computation, inclusion/exclusion
  • Conditional probability — direct
  • Independence
  • Bayes theorem — inverse probability
  • Odds

Random variables

  • Expectation
  • Variance, standard deviation
  • Median, mode
  • Discrete: probability mass function
  • Continuous: density function, cumulative distribution function

Discrete distributions

  • Bernoulli
  • Binomial
  • Normal approximation to binomial
  • Geometric
  • Negative binomial
  • Poisson
  • Hypergeometric
  • Multinomial

Continuous distributions

  • Uniform
  • Exponential
  • Gaussian normal
  • Weibull
  • Gamma
  • Other distribution

Laws, theory

  • Chebychev's inequality
  • Weak law of large numbers
  • Central limit theorem

Several variables

  • Joint distribution
  • Marginal distributions
  • Covariance & correlation

Stochastic process

  • Markov chain
  • M/M/1 queue
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