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Data Distribution

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Summary

Data distribution describes the probability distribution of a value in a data set. NumPy provides a function to generate data from a variety of distributions, and then the results can be divisible by a histogram to see the shape of the array. Understanding distribution becomes the basis of statistics and machine learning.

Key points

Distribution describes the probability of a value occurring.
It provides generators for normal, binomial, etc. distributions.
Histograms display the frequency of the data so that the distribution form is visible.
The distribution form (curved, slanted, flat) determines the characteristics of the data.

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