Victor Holman, The Sports Analytics Expert, presents his Sports Analytics 3 Minute Drill – Probability Distributions. In probability theory and statistics, a probability distribution is a mathematical function that provides the probabilities of occurrence of different possible outcomes in an experiment. In more technical terms, the probability distribution is a description of a random phenomenon in terms of the probabilities of events.
For instance, if the random variable X is used to denote the outcome of a coin toss (“the experiment”), then the probability distribution of X would take the value 0.5 for X = heads, and 0.5 for X = tails (assuming the coin is fair).
Examples of random phenomena can include the results of an experiment or survey.
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