Chapter 14. Probability Distributions
Being a statistical programming language, R easily handles all the basic necessities of statistics, including drawing random numbers and calculating distribution values (the focus of this chapter), means, variances, maxmima and minima, correlation and t-tests (the focus of Chapter 15).
Probability distributions lie at the heart of statistics, so naturally R provides numerous functions for making use of them. These include functions for generating random numbers and calculating the distribution and quantile.
14.1. Normal Distribution
Perhaps the most famous, and most used, statistical distribution is the normal distribution, sometimes referred to as the Gaussian distribution, which is defined as
where ...
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