probability distribution
the probability distribution is a function that gives the probabilities of different outcomes for an experiment.
if
is a discrete random variable then the list of values that it could receive and their corresponding probabilities are called the distribution law, probability law, or the distribution of said variable
if
let
be a random variable.
- the probability measure
is called the distribution of
.
- for a real random variable
, the map
is called the distribution function of
(or, more accurately, of
). we write
if
and say that
has distribution
.
- a family
of random variables is called identically distributed if
for all
. we write
if
(
for distribution).
[cite:;see @klenke_prob_2020 definition 1.59]