In probability theory and computer science, a log probability is simply a logarithm of a probability. The use of log probabilities means representing...
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In probability theory, a log-normal (or lognormal) distribution is a continuous probability distribution of a random variable whose logarithm is normally...
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terms of log probability, two events are independent if and only if the log probability of the joint event is the sum of the log probability of the individual...
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Likelihood function (redirect from Log-likelihood)
and the log-likelihood is the "weight of evidence". Interpreting negative log-probability as information content or surprisal, the support (log-likelihood)...
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A prior probability distribution of an uncertain quantity, simply called the prior, is its assumed probability distribution before some evidence is taken...
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Entropy (information theory) (redirect from Entropy of a probability distribution)
} is the logarithm, which gives 0 surprise when the probability of the event is 1. In fact, log is the only function that satisfies а specific set of...
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takes value 1 with probability p and value 0 with probability q = 1 − p. The Rademacher distribution, which takes value 1 with probability 1/2 and value −1...
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In probability and statistics, the log-logistic distribution (known as the Fisk distribution in economics) is a continuous probability distribution for...
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Exponential distribution (redirect from Exponential probability distribution)
In probability theory and statistics, the exponential distribution or negative exponential distribution is the probability distribution of the distance...
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In probability theory and statistics, a probability distribution is the mathematical function that gives the probabilities of occurrence of possible outcomes...
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logarithmic scale, as in log probability. Similar to multiplication operations in linear-scale becoming simple additions in log-scale, an addition operation...
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Cross-entropy (redirect from Log loss)
Q} be probability density functions of p {\displaystyle p} and q {\displaystyle q} with respect to r {\displaystyle r} . Then − ∫ X P ( x ) log Q (...
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x)=1-p(x)} is the probability of x {\displaystyle x} not occurring. Then we have the following definition of the log-odds: log-odds ( x ) = log ( p ( x )...
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Geometric distribution (category Infinitely divisible probability distributions)
In probability theory and statistics, the geometric distribution is either one of two discrete probability distributions: The probability distribution...
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such as decibels (see Decibel § Addition), log probability, or log-likelihoods. The operations on the log semiring can be defined extrinsically by mapping...
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Exponential family (redirect from Log-partition function)
)+B(x)\right].} In terms of log probability, log ( f X ( x | θ ) ) = η ( θ ) ⋅ T ( x ) − A ( θ ) + B ( x ) . {\displaystyle \log(f_{X}{\left(x\ {\big |}\...
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probability distribution Q is different from a true probability distribution P. Mathematically, it is defined as D KL ( P ∥ Q ) = ∑ x ∈ X P ( x ) log...
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Binomial distribution (redirect from Binomial probability)
In probability theory and statistics, the binomial distribution with parameters n and p is the discrete probability distribution of the number of successes...
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In probability theory, a log-t distribution or log-Student t distribution is a probability distribution of a random variable whose logarithm is distributed...
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Logistic regression (section As a "log-linear" model)
function that converts log-odds to probability is the logistic function, hence the name. The unit of measurement for the log-odds scale is called a logit...
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In probability theory and statistics, the log-Laplace distribution is the probability distribution of a random variable whose logarithm has a Laplace distribution...
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Odds ratio (redirect from Log odds ratio)
ratio (OR) and sample log odds ratio (LOR): The following joint probability distributions contain the population cell probabilities, along with the corresponding...
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Poisson distribution (redirect from Poisson probability)
In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson distribution (/ˈpwɑːsɒn/) is a discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a...
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Logarithm (redirect from Log (mathematics))
formula: log b x = log 10 x log 10 b = log e x log e b . {\displaystyle \log _{b}x={\frac {\log _{10}x}{\log _{10}b}}={\frac {\log _{e}x}{\log _{e}b}}...
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Benford's law (category Theory of probability distributions)
with probability P ( d ) = log 10 ( d + 1 ) − log 10 ( d ) = log 10 ( d + 1 d ) = log 10 ( 1 + 1 d ) . {\displaystyle P(d)=\log _{10}(d+1)-\log _{10}(d)=\log...
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determined by the events of highest probability. H 0 ( X ) {\displaystyle \mathrm {H} _{0}(X)} is log n {\displaystyle \log n} where n {\displaystyle n} is...
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distribution in log space (e.g. log-probability or log-density) instead. That is, work with h ( x ) = log g ( x ) {\displaystyle h\left(x\right)=\log g\left(x\right)}...
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Reciprocal distribution (redirect from Log-uniform distribution)
In probability and statistics, the reciprocal distribution, also known as the log-uniform distribution, is a continuous probability distribution. It is...
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Boltzmann machine (section Unit state probability)
distribution that the energy of a state is proportional to the negative log probability of that state) yields: Δ E i = − k B T ln ( p i=off ) − ( − k B T...
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