A statistical distribution whose variables can take on only discrete values. Abramowitz and Stegun (1972, p. 929) give a table of the parameters of most common discrete distributions.
A discrete distribution with probability function distribution function
and population mean
See also Bernoulli Distribution ,
Binomial Distribution ,
Continuous Distribution ,
Geometric Distribution ,
Hypergeometric Distribution ,
Negative Binomial Distribution ,
Poisson Distribution ,
Probability ,
Statistical Distribution ,
Statistics ,
Uniform Distribution Explore with Wolfram|Alpha References Abramowitz, M. and Stegun, I. A. (Eds.). Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, 9th printing. Evans, M.; Hastings, N.; and Peacock, B. Statistical Distributions, 3rd ed. McLaughlin, M. "Common Probability Distributions." http://www.geocities.com/~mikemclaughlin/math_stat/Dists/Compendium.html . Wilmmer, G. and Altmann, G. Thesaurus of Univariate Discrete Probability Distributions. Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha Discrete Distribution Cite this as: Weisstein, Eric W. "Discrete Distribution." From MathWorld https://mathworld.wolfram.com/DiscreteDistribution.html
Subject classifications 
defined over 
, 2, ..., 
has distribution function 
