R’s Garden of Probability Distributions

by Joseph Rickert If you type ?Distributions at the R console you get a list of the 21 probability distributions included in the stats package that ships with base R. The same list appears in the Introduction to R Manual on CRAN and in most of the many fine introductory books available for the R language. These are indeed fundamental distributions, sufficient for most elementary work in probability and statistics. The fact that the R functions implementing these distributions all follow same syntax greatly eases a beginner's task of trying to get some useful work done with a minimum of...