Timeline for Are "Probability Distribution" and "Probability Function" the same thing?
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Nov 30, 2014 at 6:40 | comment | added | dotancohen | Thank you Steve. I will peruse Amazon for a good statistics dictionary, and I'll see if the local used English bookstore has something as well. I did not even realize that there exist stats dictionaries. | |
Nov 30, 2014 at 6:09 | comment | added | Steve S | I definitely think you should look into buying a dictionary of Statistics--you can find used copies on Amazon selling for cheap (you mainly just pay for shipping). I know the confusion that can arise when jumping from one online resource to another--a Stats dict. is great for concise, reliable, easy-to-understand definitions. Worth the investment. | |
Nov 29, 2014 at 23:23 | vote | accept | dotancohen | ||
Nov 8, 2014 at 0:18 | comment | added | Glen_b | I wouldn't over-interpret the differences in those two. Formally, I wouldn't call either strictly correct (the first will lead to confounding of the meaning of the word 'distribution', for example, when I think it should make the idea distinct). On the other hand, wikipedia isn't - and shouldn't be - aimed at formal correctness, especially on more basic topics. | |
Nov 7, 2014 at 19:04 | comment | added | whuber♦ | There is a direct translation between the two statements afforded by the fact that an "event" is defined to be a measurable set. The use of "likelihood" in the second quotation is a poor choice, because in a technical sense likelihood is not the same as probability, even though it is used in that sense here. Evidently this is because the second quotation is attempting to be informal and "intuitive." That's fine, but such informal statements should not be too closely interpreted. | |
Nov 7, 2014 at 18:28 | answer | added | Dalton Hance | timeline score: 1 | |
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