Related Distributions
- When k = 2, the multinomial distribution is the binomial distribution.
- The continuous analogue is Multivariate normal distribution.
- Categorical distribution, the distribution of each trial; for k = 2, this is the Bernoulli distribution.
- The Dirichlet distribution is the conjugate prior of the multinomial in Bayesian statistics.
- Dirichlet-multinomial distribution.
- Beta-binomial model.
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