Talk:Probability distribution

Article Checklist for "Probability distribution"

Workgroup category or categories	Mathematics Workgroup [Categories OK]
Article status	Stub: no more than a few sentences
Underlinked article?	Yes
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	--Aleksander Stos 11:54, 27 May 2007 (CDT)

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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

1. Give an average reader a good and quick grasp of the basic idea of a probability distribution and what it's good for.
2. Give the more savvy audience a quickly grasped intro and access points into deeper ideas.
3. Provide links for further in-depth study.
4. 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)