What is probability distribution in data science?

Question

Could someone tell me what is a probability distribution in data science?

Answer 1

Probability distribution, in theory, is a mathematical function that gives the likelihood of a particular outcome or probabilities of occurrence of different possible outcomes for an experiment. Some of the most popular Probability distributions are; Bernoulli Probability distribution, Normal Probability distribution, Uniform Probability distribution, Log-Normal probability distribution, Exponential probability distribution, etc.

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