• Probability distribution fitting or simply distribution fitting is the fitting of a probability distribution to a series of data concerning the repeated...
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    In probability theory and statistics, a probability distribution is a function that gives the probabilities of occurrence of possible events for an experiment...
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    In probability theory and statistics, a normal distribution or Gaussian distribution is a type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued...
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    Bootstrapping (finance) Nonlinear regression Overfitting Plane curve Probability distribution fitting Progressive-iterative approximation method Sinusoidal model...
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    CumFreq (category Regression and curve fitting software)
    cumulative frequency analysis of a single variable and for probability distribution fitting. Originally the method was developed for the analysis of hydrological...
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  • Method of moments (statistics) (category Probability distribution fitting)
    function, instead of parameters of a known probability distribution), appropriate probability distributions may not be known, and moment-based estimates...
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    Pareto distribution, named after the Italian civil engineer, economist, and sociologist Vilfredo Pareto, is a power-law probability distribution that is...
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  • In probability theory and statistics, the generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution is a family of continuous probability distributions developed within...
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    In probability and statistics, the Gompertz distribution is a continuous probability distribution, named after Benjamin Gompertz. The Gompertz distribution...
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  • Maximum likelihood estimation (category Probability distribution fitting)
    estimation (MLE) is a method of estimating the parameters of an assumed probability distribution, given some observed data. This is achieved by maximizing a likelihood...
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  • Overdispersion (category Probability distribution fitting)
    often encountered when fitting very simple parametric models, such as those based on the Poisson distribution. The Poisson distribution has one free parameter...
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    In probability theory and statistics, the Laplace distribution is a continuous probability distribution named after Pierre-Simon Laplace. It is also sometimes...
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    The Cauchy distribution, named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy, is a continuous probability distribution. It is also known, especially among physicists, as...
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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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    In probability theory and statistics, the logistic distribution is a continuous probability distribution. Its cumulative distribution function is the logistic...
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    In probability theory and statistics, the characteristic function of any real-valued random variable completely defines its probability distribution. If...
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    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, the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of a real-valued random variable X {\displaystyle X} , or just distribution...
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    In probability theory and statistics, the beta distribution is a family of continuous probability distributions defined on the interval [0, 1] or (0, 1)...
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    embedding of distributions Generative model Application of Order Statistics: Non-parametric Density Estimation Probability distribution fitting Alberto Bernacchia...
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    Maximum spacing estimation (category Probability distribution fitting)
    of the cumulative distribution function at neighbouring data points. The concept underlying the method is based on the probability integral transform...
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  • Partial likelihood methods for panel data (category Probability distribution fitting)
    A. Nelder (1989): Generalized Linear Models, CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability (Book 37), 2nd Edition, Chapman and Hall, London....
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    In probability theory and statistics, the Gumbel distribution (also known as the type-I generalized extreme value distribution) is used to model the distribution...
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    In probability theory and statistics, the Weibull distribution /ˈwaɪbʊl/ is a continuous probability distribution. It models a broad range of random variables...
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    of probability and to the normal distribution. He had managed to complete Laplace's program of specifying a mathematical form of the probability density...
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  • Empirical likelihood (category Probability distribution fitting)
    In probability theory and statistics, empirical likelihood (EL) is a nonparametric method for estimating the parameters of statistical models. It requires...
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    In probability theory and statistics, the beta-binomial distribution is a family of discrete probability distributions on a finite support of non-negative...
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    statistics, a multimodal distribution is a probability distribution with more than one mode (i.e., more than one local peak of the distribution). These appear as...
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  • In probability theory and statistics, the Dirichlet-multinomial distribution is a family of discrete multivariate probability distributions on a finite...
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    Woldemar Voigt) is a probability distribution given by a convolution of a Cauchy-Lorentz distribution and a Gaussian distribution. It is often used in...
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