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The Beta Family

The Beta distribution is a family of continuous distributions on [0,1] with two parameters (commonly known as
α\alpha
and
β\beta
, but also
rr
and
ss
).
Credit: Wikipedia
Beta distributions are commonly used in situations where we want to continually update a prior distribution given new information.
  • The beta (1,1) distribution is identical to the uniform distribution.