This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons

File:Standard symmetric pdfs.png

From Wikibooks, open books for an open world
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(2,100 × 1,500 pixels, file size: 280 KB, MIME type: image/png)

Summary

Description
English: Plot of several symmetric unimodal probability densities with unit variance. From highest to lowest peak:
 
orange, kurtosis 2, hyperbolic (S)ecant distribution;
 
green, kurtosis 1.2, (L)ogistic distribution;
 
black, kurtosis 0, (N)ormal distribution;
 
cyan, kurtosis −0.593762…, raised (C)osine distribution;
 
blue, kurtosis −1, (W)igner semicircle distribution;
 
magenta, kurtosis −1.2, (U)niform distribution.
Date
Source Own work
Author MarkSweep

Licensing

Public domain I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:
I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
 
This plot was created with Gnuplot.
GNU head

This work is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version. This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See version 2 and version 3 of the GNU General Public License for more details.

See also

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

6 December 2006

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current07:19, 6 December 2006Thumbnail for version as of 07:19, 6 December 20062,100 × 1,500 (280 KB)MarkSweepPlot of several symmetric unimodal probability densities with unit variance

There are no pages that use this file.

Global file usage