Depending upon which text is consulted, a probability distribution function is any of:
- a probability distribution function,
- a cumulative distribution function,
- a probability mass function, or
- a probability density function.
The similar term probability function may mean any of the above and, in addition,
- a probability measure function, as in a probability space, where the domain of the function is the set of events.
Famous quotes containing the words probability, distribution and/or function:
“The probability of learning something unusual from a newspaper is far greater than that of experiencing it; in other words, it is in the realm of the abstract that the more important things happen in these times, and it is the unimportant that happens in real life.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”
—Leonardo Da Vinci (1425–1519)