Tell HN: Hypergeometric > Binomial > Poisson

3 points by wvlia5 1y ago ↗ HN

Just in case you didn't know:

Poisson distribution is a special case of Binomial distribution.

Binomial distribution is a special case of Hypergeometric distribution.

So Hypergeometric is the mother of these 3... but who is the mother of all distributions?

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andrewfromx 1y ago ↗

the Exponential Family of distributions.

wvlia5 1y ago ↗

But that is a set, so is it like a lineage path to the ultimate mother? Or is it like the full family with children, uncle and everything (in which case we still have to find the ultimate mother)?

I'll read up on it.

andrewfromx 1y ago ↗

the measure space. Lebesgue-Stieltjes Measure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue%E2%80%93Stieltjes_int...