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		ggrothendieck on Dec 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Common Probability Distributions: The Data Scienti... The image beside each node is nice but the meaning of the edges needs to be well defined for this chart to be useful. An interactive graphic of 76 probability distributions which does define the edges and also links each node to a description is available here: http://www.math.wm.edu/~leemis/chart/UDR/UDR.html and is further discussed here: http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v20n3/leemis.pdf Wikipedia also has a chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationships_among_probabilit...

jamessb on Dec 13, 2015 [–]

The blog post does link to http://www.math.wm.edu/~leemis/chart/UDR/UDR.html

John Cook also has a nice diagram adapted from it (Clicking on the arrows takes you to the explanation): http://www.johndcook.com/blog/distribution_chart/

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