Hands-On Mathematics for Deep Learning

Discrete distributions

Discrete refers to when our sample space is countable, such as in the cases of coin tosses or rolling dice.

In discrete probability distributions, the sample space is and .

The following are the six different kinds of discrete distributions that we often encounter in probability theory:

• Bernoulli distribution
• Binomial distribution
• Geometric distribution
• Hypergeometric distribution
• Poisson distribution

Let's define them in order.

For the Bernoulli distribution, let's use the example of a coin toss, where our sample ...