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Bètaverdeling

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Also known as beta distribution of the first kind

distributions defined on [0, 1] in terms of two positive parameters

Key facts

Notation
Beta( α , β )
Parameters
α > 0 shape ( real ), β > 0 shape ( real )
Support
x ∈ [ 0 , 1 ] {\displaystyle x\in [0,1]\!} or x ∈ ( 0 , 1 ) {\displaystyle x\in (0,1)\!}
Cdf
I x ( α , β ) {\displaystyle I_{x}(\alpha ,\beta )\!} (the regularized incomplete beta function )
Mode
α − 1 α + β − 2 {\displaystyle {\frac {\alpha -1}{\alpha +\beta -2}}\!} for α , β > 1 Any value in the domain for α = β = 1 No mode if α <1 or β <1. Density diverges at 0 for α ≤ 1, and at 1 if β ≤ 1
Skewness
2 ( β − α ) α + β + 1 ( α + β + 2 ) α β {\displaystyle {\frac {2\,(\beta -\alpha ){\sqrt {\alpha +\beta +1}}}{(\alpha +\beta +2){\sqrt {\alpha \beta }}}}}
Excess kurtosis
6 [ ( α − β ) 2 ( α + β + 1 ) − α β ( α + β + 2 ) ] α β ( α + β + 2 ) ( α + β + 3 ) {\displaystyle {\frac {6[(\alpha -\beta )^{2}(\alpha +\beta +1)-\alpha \beta (\alpha +\beta +2)]}{\alpha \beta (\alpha +\beta +2)(\alpha +\beta +3)}}}
Entropy
ln ⁡ B ( α , β ) − ( α − 1 ) ψ ( α ) − ( β − 1 ) ψ ( β ) + ( α + β − 2 ) ψ ( α + β ) {\displaystyle {\begin{matrix}\ln \mathrm {B} (\alpha ,\beta )-(\alpha -1)\psi (\alpha )-(\beta -1)\psi (\beta )\\[0.5em]{}+(\alpha +\beta -2)\psi (\alpha +\beta )\end{matrix}}}
Mgf
1 + ∑ k = 1 ∞ ( ∏ r = 0 k − 1 α + r α + β + r ) t k k ! {\displaystyle 1+\sum _{k=1}^{\infty }\left(\prod _{r=0}^{k-1}{\frac {\alpha +r}{\alpha +\beta +r}}\right){\frac {t^{k}}{k!}}}
Cf
1 F 1 ( α ; α + β ; i t ) {\displaystyle {}_{1}F_{1}(\alpha ;\alpha +\beta ;i\,t)\!} (see Confluent hypergeometric function )
Method of moments
α = ( E [ X ] ( 1 − E [ X ] ) V [ X ] − 1 ) E [ X ] {\displaystyle \alpha =\left({\frac {E[X](1-E[X])}{V[X]}}-1\right)E[X]} , β = ( E [ X ] ( 1 − E [ X ] ) V [ X ] − 1 ) ( 1 − E [ X ] ) {\displaystyle \beta =\left({\frac {E[X](1-E[X])}{V[X]}}-1\right)(1-E[X])}

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Article · Nederlands

In de kansrekening en statistiek is de bètaverdeling een continue kansverdeling, met twee parameters. De bètaverdeling wordt gebruikt om de kansverdeling van gesorteerde grootheden te beschrijven. Tevens wordt de bètaverdeling uitgebreid gebruikt in de Bayesiaanse statistiek vanwege handige wiskundige eigenschappen van deze verdeling.

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