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.