Primer on Statistical Distributions

N. BALAKRISHNAN, PhD, is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. V. B. NEVZOROV, PhD, DS, is Professor of Probability and Statistics at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia.

• Preface. Preliminaries.I. DISCRETE DISTRIBUTIONS.Discrete Uniform Distribution.Degenerate Distribution.Bernoulli Distribution.Binomial Distribution.Geometric Distribution.Negative Binomial Distribution.Hypergeometric Distribution.Poisson Distribution.Miscellanea.II. CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTIONS.Uniform Distribution.Cauchy Distribution.Triangular Distribution.Power Distribution.Pareto Distribution.Beta Distribution.Arcsine Distribution.Exponential Distribution.Laplace Distribution.Gamma Distribution.Extreme Value Distributions.Logistic Distribution.Normal Distribution.Miscellanea.III. MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS.Multinomial Distribution.Multivariate Normal Distribution.Dirichlet Distribution.Appendix -  Pioneers in Distribution Theory.Bibliography.Author Index.Subject Index.

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