Explonential Family of Distributions
Exponential Family of Distributions The exponential family of distributions is a powerful and widely used class of probability distributions in statistics and machine learning. The exponential family provides a unified framework for many common probability distributions like the normal, binomial, Poisson, and gamma distributions. Exponential Family General Form A probability distribution belongs to the exponential family if its probability density function (for continuous distributions) or probability mass function (for discrete distributions) can be written as: ...