A probability distribution assigns a probability to each measurable subset of the possible

outcomes of a random experiment, survey, or procedure of statistical inference In probability

and statistics. Examples are found in experiments whose sample space is non-numerical,
where the distribution would be a categorical distribution; experiments whose sample space is
encoded by discrete random variables, where the distribution can be specified by
a probability mass function; and experiments with sample spaces encoded by continuous
random variables, where the distribution can be specified by a probability density function.

In probability theory and statistics, the binomial distribution is the discrete probability
distribution of the number of successes in a sequence of n independent, each of which yields
success with probability p. A success/failure experiment is also called a Bernoulli experiment
or Bernoulli trial; when n = 1, the binomial distribution is a Bernoulli distribution.

However, the Poisson distribution expresses the probability of a given number of events
occurring in a fixed interval of time and/or space if these events occur with a known average
rate and independently of the time since the last event.The Poisson distribution can also be
used for the number of events in other specified intervals such as distance, area or volume.

The normal distribution as known as Gaussian distribution is commonly occurring continuous

probability distribution . The Gaussian distribution is sometimes informally called the bell
curve. It is a function that shows the probability that any real observation will fall between
any two real limits or real numbers, as the curve approaches zero on either side. The normal
distribution is immensely useful because of the central limit theorem, which states that, under
mild conditions, the mean of many random variables independently drawn from the same
distribution is distributed approximately normally, irrespective of the form of the original
distribution.
There are two major reasons to employ a correction for continuity adjustment here. First,
discrete random variable can take on only specified values while a continuous random
variable can take on any values within a continuous or interval around those specified values.
Hence, when using the normal distribution to approximate the binomial or the Poisson
distributions, more accurate approximation of the probabilities are likely to be obtained if a
correction for continuity adjustment is employed.
Secondly, a continuous distribution such as normal, the probability of obtaining a particular
value of random variable is zero. On the other, when the normal distribution is used to
approximate a discrete distribution, a correction for continuity adjustment can be employed
so that the probability of a specific value of the discrete distribution can be approximated.