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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Beginners
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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Beginners

by David Dindi, Patrick D. Smith
October 2018
Beginner
362 pages
9h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Probability distributions

You've probably seen a chart such as the following one; it's showing us the values that appear in a dataset, and how many times those values appear. This is called a distribution of a variable. In this particular case, we're displaying the distribution with the help of a histogram, which shows the frequency of the variables: 

In this section, we're interested in a particular type of distribution, called a probability distribution. When we talk about probability distributions, we're talking about the likelihood of a random variable taking on a certain value, and we create one by dividing the frequencies in the preceding ...

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