A statistical distribution whose variables can take on only discrete values. Abramowitz and Stegun (1972, p. 929) give
a table of the parameters of most common discrete distributions.
A discrete distribution with probability function distribution function
and population mean
See also Bernoulli Distribution ,
Binomial Distribution ,
Continuous
Distribution ,
Geometric Distribution ,
Hypergeometric Distribution ,
Negative
Binomial Distribution ,
Poisson Distribution ,
Probability ,
Statistical
Distribution ,
Statistics ,
Uniform
Distribution
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References Abramowitz, M. and Stegun, I. A. (Eds.). Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, 9th printing. Evans, M.; Hastings, N.;
and Peacock, B. Statistical
Distributions, 3rd ed. McLaughlin, M.
"Common Probability Distributions." http://www.geocities.com/~mikemclaughlin/math_stat/Dists/Compendium.html . Wilmmer,
G. and Altmann, G. Thesaurus
of Univariate Discrete Probability Distributions. Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha Discrete Distribution
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Discrete Distribution."
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Subject classifications
defined over 
, 2, ..., 
has distribution function
