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  2. Marsaglia polar method - Wikipedia

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    The Marsaglia polar method [1] is a pseudo-random number sampling method for generating a pair of independent standard normal random variables. [2]Standard normal random variables are frequently used in computer science, computational statistics, and in particular, in applications of the Monte Carlo method.

  3. Normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    The simplest case of a normal distribution is known as the standard normal distribution or unit normal distribution. This is a special case when μ = 0 {\textstyle \mu =0} and σ 2 = 1 {\textstyle \sigma ^{2}=1} , and it is described by this probability density function (or density): φ ( z ) = e − z 2 2 2 π . {\displaystyle \varphi (z ...

  4. Wrapped normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory and directional statistics, a wrapped normal distribution is a wrapped probability distribution that results from the "wrapping" of the normal distribution around the unit circle. It finds application in the theory of Brownian motion and is a solution to the heat equation for periodic boundary conditions.

  5. Sturges's rule - Wikipedia

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    bins in the histogram. This rule is widely employed in data analysis software including Python [2] and R, where it is the default bin selection method. [3] Sturges's rule comes from the binomial distribution which is used as a discrete approximation to the normal distribution. [4]

  6. Seven states of randomness - Wikipedia

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    The seven states of randomness in probability theory, fractals and risk analysis are extensions of the concept of randomness as modeled by the normal distribution. These seven states were first introduced by Benoît Mandelbrot in his 1997 book Fractals and Scaling in Finance , which applied fractal analysis to the study of risk and randomness ...

  7. Studentized range distribution - Wikipedia

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    The studentized range distribution function arises from re-scaling the sample range R by the sample standard deviation s, since the studentized range is customarily tabulated in units of standard deviations, with the variable q = R ⁄ s. The derivation begins with a perfectly general form of the distribution function of the sample range, which ...

  8. Normality test - Wikipedia

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    A graphical tool for assessing normality is the normal probability plot, a quantile-quantile plot (QQ plot) of the standardized data against the standard normal distribution. Here the correlation between the sample data and normal quantiles (a measure of the goodness of fit) measures how well the data are modeled by a normal distribution. For ...

  9. Probability density function - Wikipedia

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    Unlike a probability, a probability density function can take on values greater than one; for example, the continuous uniform distribution on the interval [0, 1/2] has probability density f(x) = 2 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 1/2 and f(x) = 0 elsewhere.