noun
Meaning 1
Any of a family of continuous probability distributions defined on the interval [0, 1] whose shape is parametrised by two positive parameters, denoted α and β, which appear as exponents in the associated random variable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, probability, sciences, statistics
Examples
- 2014, Stephen F. Bush, Smart Grid: Communication-Enabled Intelligence for the Electric Power Grid, Wiley, 2015, Reprint with corrections, page 366, When more than two mutually exclusive events are involved in a frame of reference, the beta distributions form the marginals of a Dirichlet distribution.
- 2014, Nikolay Tcholtchev, Ina Schieferdecker, Framework for Ensuring Runtime Stability of Control Loops in Multi-agent Networked Environments, Marina Gavrilova, C. J. Kenneth Tan (editors), Transactions on Computational Science XXII, Springer, LNCS 8360, page 80, We developed a Matlab script that implements the machine learning procedures as specified by (11), as well as by (13) with applying the beta-distribution (14) as a probability measure.
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