muotijakauman
Muotijakauma, often translated as shape distribution, is a term used in statistics to describe the qualitative form of a probability distribution. It characterizes how the probability mass or density is arranged along the value axis, independent of the distribution’s location (mean) and scale (variance).
Key characteristics of muotijakauma include symmetry versus skewness, unimodality versus multimodality, and the heaviness of tails
Shape is typically assessed with graphical tools such as histograms and kernel density estimates, and with
Common shapes include the normal distribution (symmetric, bell-shaped), exponential and gamma distributions (right-skewed), the uniform distribution
Understanding muotijakauma is important for model selection and inference, since the shape influences estimation, hypothesis testing,