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==[[Random variable]]s== ===Discrete and continuous random variables=== * [[Discrete random variable]]s: [[Probability mass function]]s * [[Continuous random variable]]s: [[Probability density function]]s * [[Normalizing constant]]s * [[Cumulative distribution function]]s * [[Joint distribution|Joint]], [[marginal distribution|marginal]] and [[Conditional distribution|conditional]] distributions ===Expectation=== * [[expected value|Expectation]] (or [[mean]]), [[variance]] and [[covariance]] ** [[Jensen's inequality]] * General [[Moment about the mean|moments about the mean]] * [[Correlation|Correlated]] and [[uncorrelated]] random variables * [[Conditional expectation]]: ** [[law of total expectation]], [[law of total variance]] * [[Fatou's lemma]] and the [[monotone convergence theorem|monotone]] and [[dominated convergence theorem|dominated]] convergence theorems * [[Markov's inequality]] and [[Chebyshev's inequality]] ===Independence=== * [[Independent random variables]] ===Some common distributions=== * Discrete: ** [[Constant random variable|constant]] (see also [[degenerate distribution]]), ** [[Bernoulli distribution|Bernoulli]] and [[Binomial distribution|binomial]], ** [[Negative binomial distribution|negative binomial]], ** [[Uniform distribution (discrete)|(discrete) uniform]], ** [[geometric distribution|geometric]], ** [[Poisson distribution|Poisson]], and ** [[hypergeometric distribution|hypergeometric]]. * Continuous: ** [[Uniform distribution (continuous)|(continuous) uniform]], ** [[exponential distribution|exponential]], ** [[gamma distribution|gamma]], ** [[beta distribution|beta]], ** [[normal distribution|normal]] (or ''Gaussian'') and [[multivariate normal distribution|multivariate normal]], ** [[chi-squared distribution|χ-squared]] (or chi-squared), ** [[F-distribution]], ** [[Student's t-distribution]], and ** [[Cauchy distribution|Cauchy]]. ===Some other distributions=== * [[Cantor distribution|Cantor]] * [[Fisher–Tippett distribution|Fisher–Tippett]] (or ''Gumbel'') * [[Pareto distribution|Pareto]] * [[Benford's law]] ===Functions of random variables=== * [[Sum of normally distributed random variables]] * [[Borel's paradox]]
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