Standard distributions in R.

Abstract There are a number of in-built probability distributions, including uniform, binomial, negative binomial, normal, log-normal, logistic, exponential, Chisquared, Poisson, gamma, Fisher's F, Student's t, Weibull and others. These are used to generate p-values from test statistics, to generate random values from a distribution or to generate expected distributions. This chapter deals with standard distributions in R (a programming language that has a huge range of inbuilt statistical and graphical functions), focusing on the normal, Student's t, lognormal, logistic, Poisson, gamma, and the Chi-squared.