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<p>You might be interested in Poincare's method of arbitrary functions for establishing probability distributions on "random" mechanical events. A quick search turned up this article by Jan van Plato: <a href="http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/34/1/37" rel="nofollow">http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/34/1/37</a></p>