Probability Distributions: A Gentle Introduction

Sneha Thanasekaran
Women Who Code Data Science
7 min readFeb 21, 2021

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Introduction to the 3 most commonly used distributions

From a simple coin toss to the weather reports, there is a chance element to all events being measured. If you have looked deeply into your weather widget in your phone, you can see something like “chance of rain: 45%”. Thus Probability Distributions are important in understanding these changes and they talk about how likely…

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Sneha Thanasekaran
Women Who Code Data Science

Data Scientist | Learning Enthusiast with focus on Statistics, Machine Learning and Analytics. Finding new aspirations/dreams and having fun along the way!