Compound probability distributionIn probability and statistics, a compound probability distribution (also known as a mixture distribution or contagious distribution) is the probability distribution that results from assuming that a random variable is distributed according to some parametrized distribution, with (some of) the parameters of that distribution themselves being random variables. If the parameter is a scale parameter, the resulting mixture is also called a scale mixture.
Ratio distributionA ratio distribution (also known as a quotient distribution) is a probability distribution constructed as the distribution of the ratio of random variables having two other known distributions. Given two (usually independent) random variables X and Y, the distribution of the random variable Z that is formed as the ratio Z = X/Y is a ratio distribution. An example is the Cauchy distribution (also called the normal ratio distribution), which comes about as the ratio of two normally distributed variables with zero mean.
Loi de PoissonEn théorie des probabilités et en statistiques, la loi de Poisson est une loi de probabilité discrète qui décrit le comportement du nombre d'événements se produisant dans un intervalle de temps fixé, si ces événements se produisent avec une fréquence moyenne ou espérance connue, et indépendamment du temps écoulé depuis l'événement précédent. gauche|vignette|Chewing gums sur un trottoir. Le nombre de chewing gums sur un pavé est approximativement distribué selon une loi de Poisson.
