Probability Distributions

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• Beta distribution - Wikipedia — Continuous distribution on [0,1] conjugate prior for Bernoulli/binomial
• Understanding Moments — Deep explanation of statistical moments — mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis — and why they are called moments
• Wigner semicircle distribution - Wikipedia — Limiting eigenvalue distribution of large random symmetric matrices
• rv_discrete# — SciPy base class for subclassing custom discrete probability distributions