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  2. 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 ...

  3. Scott's rule - Wikipedia

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    10000 samples from a normal distribution binned using different rules. The Scott rule uses 48 bins, the Terrell-Scott rule uses 28 and Sturges's rule 15. This rule is also called the oversmoothed rule [ 7 ] or the Rice rule , [ 8 ] so called because both authors worked at Rice University .

  4. 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.

  5. Truncated normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    In probability and statistics, the truncated normal distribution is the probability distribution derived from that of a normally distributed random variable by bounding the random variable from either below or above (or both). The truncated normal distribution has wide applications in statistics and econometrics.

  6. Q-function - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, the Q-function is the tail distribution function of the standard normal distribution. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In other words, Q ( x ) {\displaystyle Q(x)} is the probability that a normal (Gaussian) random variable will obtain a value larger than x {\displaystyle x} standard deviations.

  7. Sturges's rule - Wikipedia

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    Sturges's rule [1] is a method to choose the number of bins for a histogram.Given observations, Sturges's rule suggests using ^ = + ⁡ 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.

  8. Box–Muller transform - Wikipedia

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    The standard Box–Muller transform generates values from the standard normal distribution (i.e. standard normal deviates) with mean 0 and standard deviation 1. The implementation below in standard C++ generates values from any normal distribution with mean μ {\displaystyle \mu } and variance σ 2 {\displaystyle \sigma ^{2}} .

  9. Empirical distribution function - Wikipedia

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    A non-exhaustive list of software implementations of Empirical Distribution function includes: In R software, we compute an empirical cumulative distribution function, with several methods for plotting, printing and computing with such an “ecdf” object. In MATLAB we can use Empirical cumulative distribution function (cdf) plot