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Probability Distributions

Features and properties of bernoulli, binomial, poisson, geometric, normal, and exponental distributions. Perl modules to generate probability density and cumulative values.

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Probability Distributions

Martin Krzywinski


#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;

$\="\n";
$,=" ";

my $p = 0.5;
my $q = 1-$p;

my $N = 10000;

for (0..$N) {
    my $i = 0;
    my $urd = rand();
    while( $urd > 1-$q**($i+1)) {
	$i++;
    }
    print $urd,$i;
}

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4.1.2.2.2.c1 | cdf | Martin Krzywinski | code

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4.1.2.2.2.c3 | coin.txt | Martin Krzywinski | code

4.1.2.2.2.c4 | geometric | Martin Krzywinski | code

4.1.2.2.2.a1 | Probability Distributions | Martin Krzywinski | pdf

4.1.2.2.2.p1 | Probability Distributions | Martin Krzywinski | ppt

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