Probability and Statistical Distributions
Probability and Statistical Distributions
This chapter reviews notation and basic concepts in probability and statistics. The coverage of various topics cannot be complete, and it is aimed at concepts needed to understand material covered in the book. For an in-depth discussion of probability and statistics, the chapter suggests that readers please refer to numerous readily available textbooks, such as Bar89, Lup93, WJ03, Wass10, mentioned in this book. The chapter begins with a brief overview of probability and random variables. It then reviews the most common univariate and multivariate distribution functions, and correlation coefficients. It also summarizes the central limit theorem and discusses how to generate mock samples (random number generation) for a given distribution function.
Keywords: notations, random variables, univariate distribution, multivariate distribution functions, correlation coefficients, central limit theorem, probability, statistics
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