Common Distributions and Multivariate Random Variables

Free GARP FRM Part I lesson in Quantitative Analysis. 19 min read, ~2,853 words.

Bernoulli/Binomial for default counts, Poisson for arrival counts in fixed time, Normal for log-returns, Lognormal for price levels. Student t for fat-tailed returns, Chi-squared/F for variance and joint hypothesis tests, Exponential for inter-arrival times, Beta for [0,1] quantities. Mixture distributions combine component distributions weighted by mixing probabilities, the standard tool...

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