Template talk:ProbDistributions

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[edit] Not Italic

This template is a good idea, but I think we should not have italics in such a small font, its hard to read. See for example Template:popgen. PAR 00:27, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Good call, I removed them. --Btyner 01:48, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "degree" distribution?

Is this a true distribution? It seems not to be, or certainly not descibed as one. Baccyak4H (talk) 02:36, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

No, judging from the definition of degree distribution. Removed. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 03:41, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

And again, is the "fading" distribution in the same boat? Baccyak4H (Yak!) 20:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I had the same thought (before looking at this talk page), so i'll go ahead and remove it. Qwfp (talk) 09:42, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Benford's law

I added a link to Benford's law, which itself implies a very well defined discrete distribution. I do note that that page is not of similar format to most other distribution pages, so if some think its inclusion in this template is problematic, let's discuss. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 19:49, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] missing

frechet and log-gamma are missing... --84.75.21.114 12:41, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] spaces in wikitext

I boldly changed the spaces in the displayed names of the distributions to non breaking spaces. This way, a distribution's name will always appear on one line. The only drawback I see is that the line breaks may become slightly more ragged.

If this displays poorly on same pages or in some contexts, it can be reverted, and apologies in advance. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 18:46, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hotelling's T-square

The Hottelling's T square is a multivariate generalisation of the Student's t distribution. Therefore, I think it should be list in the column of the multivariate distributions in this template. 08 Dec 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.111.194.230 (talk) 02:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Although it's used in multivariate statistics, Hotelling's T-statistic is a scalar so Hotelling's T-distribution is univariate so it's correct where it is. --Qwfp (talk) 16:19, 24 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Too large

While i think this navbox is useful, i'd suggest it has grown too large, which limits its navigational value -- see WP:NAVBOX#Properties. In particular the number of univariate continuous distributions is a bit overwhelming. Seems worth discussing which of the three solutions suggested at WP:NAVBOX#Properties might be appropriate. Personally i'd favour the last, "Link only the immediately related articles while hiding the rest, like in the case of {{Johnny Cash}}." This would require first creating more subdivisions, at least for the univariate continuous distributions. Could use the same ones used by Probability_distribution#List_of_important_probability_distributions i.e. categorise by support.

The other option that suggests is to limit the navbox to "important" distributions, but I don't like that option as it would open the door to endless discussion of what constitutes "important".

I also think the "Miscellaneous" grouping needs some cleaning up and pruning:

Having put this all down in writing it looks like quite a lot of work though, especially as the "{{Johnny Cash}}" solution would require editing each of the pages that transclude this navbox. I don't have time to do it at the moment and whether i ever attempt it probably depends on the reaction of others here. Qwfp (talk) 11:33, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, it has grown a bit unwieldy. Please be bold! Btyner (talk) 18:20, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I concur the whole thing is too big. I may have a go soon; I like the idea of collapsable boxes so will probably try something along those lines. If I do try, I'll start in my userspace and I'll link it here. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 21:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Please, go ahead. I don't think i'm ever likely to get around to it myself to be perfectly honest. I'll watch with interest. Qwfp (talk) 22:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I got around to it after all, inspired by the discussion over at WT:WPM#The numbers template. The result is at User:Qwfp/tempprobdist for now. An example:

{{User:Qwfp/tempprobdist|multivariate}}

produces: User:Qwfp/tempprobdist

Let me know what you think. I'll also run it past WT:WikiProject Probability (if in case anyone's still watching that) and WT:WikiProject Mathematics before replacing {{ProbDistributions}}. Qwfp (talk) 15:24, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Y Done. I've replaced it with the new and somewhat more compact version with collapsible groups. Qwfp (talk) 11:48, 1 March 2008 (UTC)