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tributions. The uniform distribution is on the unit interval and the normal
has mean 0 and variance 1. Other uniform and normal distributions can
be obtained by scaling and translating the standard ones. Other commonly
used distributions are the exponential and chi-square distributions as well as
Gosset’stdistribution, and Fisher’sFdistribution.Figure 16.4 Ontology for probability distributions.