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== This article should be kept simple and introductory == | |||
I think this should be an "introductory" article. Concepts unfamiliar to nonmathematicians should be reserved for an "advanced" article, or at least tucked away into an "advanced" section of this article. | |||
Such "advanced" concepts clearly include Lebesgue integrals and measure theory - ordinary Riemann sums are known to many undergraduates, Lebesgue theory is known only to a few. | |||
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Revision as of 06:26, 15 November 2007
Name of article
This article seems to be a list of probability istributions, and not an article about probability distributions per se. Certainly, having such a list seems like a good thing, but I wonder if the article shouldn't be renamed. Of course, we would also want to have an article on probability distributions. Greg Woodhouse 09:53, 25 June 2007 (CDT)
Probability vs. probability distribution
You may want to rearrange/rephrase the opening material a bit, but the article failed to distinguish between probability and probability distributions. They are not the same thing: probability distributions are functions that can be integrated (or summed) to obtain probability. Greg Woodhouse 10:32, 25 June 2007 (CDT)
Purpose of article
This article is intended to
- Give an average reader a good and quick grasp of the basic idea of a probability distribution and what it's good for.
- Give the more savvy audience a quickly grasped intro and access points into deeper ideas.
- Provide links for further in-depth study.
- Present the ideas in a way that doesn't scare off math-phobes. That's why I want to keep equations out until the end of the article, or keep them in separate sections, labeled "formal definitions" or similar.
Ragnar Schroder 19:17, 25 June 2007 (CDT)
Duplicated content
I duplicated parts of this article to create the 2 new articles: continuous probability distribution and discrete probability distribution.
The duplicated contents should be removed an replaced by a summary and a link.
There's an inconsistency too, since the article [[continuous probability distribution] does not yet exist. Also some articles link to unwritten (and superfluous) articles with the same titles in plural form.
Ragnar Schroder 06:12, 26 June 2007 (CDT)
Bayesian bias
This version came out highly biased towards the Probability as extended classical logic viewpoint. I think much of it should be moved either into the as yet unwritten probability theory article, or into a specialized one dealing with probability logic.
Ragnar Schroder 08:58, 27 June 2007 (CDT)
This article should be kept simple and introductory
I think this should be an "introductory" article. Concepts unfamiliar to nonmathematicians should be reserved for an "advanced" article, or at least tucked away into an "advanced" section of this article.
Such "advanced" concepts clearly include Lebesgue integrals and measure theory - ordinary Riemann sums are known to many undergraduates, Lebesgue theory is known only to a few.
Ragnar Schroder 05:26, 15 November 2007 (CST)