The
Distributome Project is an open-source, open
content-development project for exploring, discovering, navigating,
learning and computational utilization of diverse probability distributions, which
are functions that assign probabilities to events and give rise to mass
or density functions, distribution functions, quantile functions,
probability and moment generating functions.
The current Distributome
XML meta-data on distribution
properties and inter-distribution relations
is available here, the
XSD
schema is available here, and the
XML
HTML5 Validator is here. The
complete
Distributome
project Java source code is available online under LGPL license.
The
interactive
Distributome graphical user
Navigator (requires
JavaScript-enabled browser) and allows community contributions (review, edit, revise and
expand the core Distributome database.
The
Distributome project
was initiated in 2008 by the
UCLA
Statistics Online Computational Resource, the
UAH
Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics, and the
OSU Mathematical Biosciences Institute.
Comments, inquiries, collaboration-requests and other information may
be obtained by email to

. Since
2010, the Distributome project is funded in part by the National
Science Foundation (NSF) grants
1416953,
1023115,
1022560,
and
1022636.
The Principal Investigators of the Distributome project are
Ivo Dinov (SOCR/Michigan/UCLA),
Dennis Pearl (MBI/OSU), and
Kyle Siegrist
(VLPS/UAH). Distributome
development test server is available here.
The Distributome Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) provides ongoing advice, vision
and constructive recommendations to the project development and evolution. SAB members include
Lawrence Moore (Duke),
David Aldous (Berkeley) and
Robert Dobrow (Carleton College).
Jim Pitman, UC Berleley, has also
contributed significnatly to this effort.