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The three basic probability distributions, Binomial or Bernoulli, Poisson and Normal or Gaussian, are briefly examined.
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Christodoulides, C., Christodoulides, G. (2017). The Three Basic Probability Distributions. In: Analysis and Presentation of Experimental Results. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53345-2_7
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