What is a Gaussian distribution?
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Also known as a normal distribution, a Gaussian distribution is symmetric and can be fully characterized by its mean and standard deviation.
What is a uniform distribution?
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One where each outcome has the same probability. The distribution can be fully characterized with a single parameter, the range.
What is important about an exponential distribution?
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This is the only continuous memory-less distribution, meaning that the probability of any outcome at a point in time is independent of the outcome at any previous time.