Talk:Continuous probability distribution

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Please update this rating as the article progresses, or if the rating is inaccurate. Click to show/hide comments. Please add to or update the comments to suggest improvements to the article. If not merged, this article needs more structure. Geometry guy 14:21, 21 May 2007 (UTC) Not much has been changed since then. But I don't think this article is high priority so downgraded to "mid" — the main "probability distribution" article is much more important, and i think this article should have the same priority as discrete probability distribution which is rated "mid" importance. Qwfp (talk) 12:11, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

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I moved this from the main page:

A random variable is continuous if the set of all possible values it can assume forms an interval, either finite or infinite.

The probability that a continuous random variable will take a value in any particular sub-interval is given by the probability density function.

Not every variable whose range is an interval (surely of positive length?) has a probability density function. Are continuous random variables those whose cdf if continuous? AxelBoldt

[edit] What more?

Something should be added relating to multivariate distributions, a little more about mixed continous-discrete distributions (example of rainfall perhaps), and about general decomposition in continuous, discrete etc components. Melcombe (talk) 17:01, 20 May 2008 (UTC)