Probabilty distributions–Essential concepts

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Jeet Sukumaran

(a) A uniform distribution assigns equal probability to every outcome.
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A probability distribution is a probability measure (assignment of probability) on the set of all possible values of a random variable.

Different probability distributions may assign different probabilities to the same outcome.”

Figure 1: The same class or type distributions may also assign different probabilities to the same outcome, based on its parameter values.”

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