Standard Probability Distributions


Discrete Distributions

Bernoulli

Binomial

Multinomial

Continuous Distributions

Multivariate Gaussian

Mixture Models

Von Mises

Periodic variables…

Properties of the Exponential Family

The Bernoulli, Binomial, Multinomial, Multivariate Gaussian, & Von Mises distributions all belong to the exponential family of distributions. Membership in the exponential family implies a set of characteristics.

Nonparametric Methods

Nonparametric methods are said to be distribution free.