R: Distributions in the stats package

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## Distributions in the stats package

### Description

Density, cumulative distribution function, quantile function and random variate generation for many standard probability distributions are available in the stats package.

### Details

The functions for the density/mass function, cumulative distribution function, quantile function and random variate generation are named in the form `dxxx`, `pxxx`, `qxxx` and `rxxx` respectively.

For the beta distribution see `dbeta`.

For the binomial (including Bernoulli) distribution see `dbinom`.

For the Cauchy distribution see `dcauchy`.

For the chi-squared distribution see `dchisq`.

For the exponential distribution see `dexp`.

For the F distribution see `df`.

For the gamma distribution see `dgamma`.

For the geometric distribution see `dgeom`. (This is also a special case of the negative binomial.)

For the hypergeometric distribution see `dhyper`.

For the log-normal distribution see `dlnorm`.

For the multinomial distribution see `dmultinom`.

For the negative binomial distribution see `dnbinom`.

For the normal distribution see `dnorm`.

For the Poisson distribution see `dpois`.

For the Student's t distribution see `dt`.

For the uniform distribution see `dunif`.

For the Weibull distribution see `dweibull`.

For less common distributions of test statistics see `pbirthday`, `dsignrank`, `ptukey` and `dwilcox` (and see the ‘See Also’ section of `cor.test`).

### See Also

`RNG` about random number generation in R.

The CRAN task view on distributions, http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Distributions.html, mentioning several CRAN packages for additional distributions.

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