The Intuitions for the Discrete Distributions: Bernoulli, Binomial, Beta, Dirichlet Distributions

Chris Kuo/Dr. Dataman
Dataman in AI
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16 min readJan 20, 2023

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Machine learning uses a lot of discrete distributions such as the Bernoulli, Binomial, and Multinomial distributions to solve problems. Two related discrete distributions, the Beta and Dirichlet distributions are less known but are widely used in data science. The Dirichlet distribution is especially important in Natural…

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Chris Kuo/Dr. Dataman
Dataman in AI

The Dataman articles are my reflections on data science and teaching notes at Columbia University https://sps.columbia.edu/faculty/chris-kuo