The first time I noticed a confusion in terminology with respect to density and distribution was in a quantum physics introduction, and I’ve seen it elsewhere since. (I realize this isn’t exactly what your article is about.)
It isn’t hard to glean the meaning from context, but it is disconcerting.
Perhaps it’s because physicists eventually talk about Dirac’s delta function and they are thinking of the terms “generalized functions” and “distributions,” which are not about probability.
It's a probability density
The first time I noticed a confusion in terminology with respect to density and distribution was in a quantum physics introduction, and I’ve seen it elsewhere since. (I realize this isn’t exactly what your article is about.)
It isn’t hard to glean the meaning from context, but it is disconcerting.
Perhaps it’s because physicists eventually talk about Dirac’s delta function and they are thinking of the terms “generalized functions” and “distributions,” which are not about probability.