6 Useful Probability Distributions with Applications to Data Science Problems

A practical overview with examples and Python code.

Michał Oleszak
Towards Data Science
14 min readMar 22, 2021

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Is it a hat? Or an elephant eaten by a snake? Or a mix of normal distributions? Image by the author.

Probability distributions are mathematical functions describing probabilities of things happening. Many processes taking place in the world around us can be described by a handful of distributions that have been well-researched and analyzed…

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