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What is the closed-form or the deterministic form of a quadratic form probability inequality
Hello, everyone, I want to resolve one optimal problem, with the following probability inequality constraint.
$Pr(h^H(W_1 - W_2 -W_3 -U)h \geq \sigma^2) \leq \rho$
where
$h \sim …
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Joint distribution from multiple marginals
Consider an experiment consisting of a repeated trial with two random Bernoulli (=binary) variables, A and B. Each trial consists of multiple outcomes for both A and B. Each trial …
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circles required to cover the perimeter of rectangle
Suppose sensor nodes of homogeneous sensing ranges are dropped by Poisson distribution around the given rectangle of area l*h. How do i calculate the minimum number of circles requ …
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how to calculate probability that straight line is covered by sensors with radius r
suppose sensors of homogeneous radius r are dropped by Poisson distribution on a straight line of length L. how to calculate that the straight line is covered by sensors with prob …
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Are there some potentially good methods of comparing the variances of two distribution function?
for example, x is random variable, f(x) and g(x) are two "very very" different distribution functions. It is impossible to calculate variance analytically, so if we want to compare …
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computing an integral involving standard normal pdf and cdf
recently, i need to compute this kind of integral:
$$ \int ^\infty _c \Phi(ax+b) \phi(x) dx$$
where a, b and c are all constants and $\Phi(x)$ denotes the CDF of standard normal di …
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integrating sigmoid function wrt probability density function
Hi, I have a random variable V with probability density g(V) and a sigmoid, or logistic, function Y=S(V). I'd like to calculate a closed-form expression for the expected value of t …
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Prove that the sum of a certain infinite series is 1
Prove the (numerically-evident) proposition that
\begin{equation}
\Sigma_{i=0}^\infty f(i) = 1,
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
f(i)= 2^{-4 i-6} q(i) \frac{\Gamma(3 i+\frac{ …
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Sum of binomial probablilities
One of my friends is building a game where the player will get questions from 6 different categories. Each category has a total of 50 questions. A single game consists of answering …
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Is it possible to define a mixed normal having conditional variance almost everywhere null?
I'm trying to proving the stable limit of a martingale M_n(t).
When I calculate the limit in probability of its quadratic variation, I find that it
is always null except for a poin …
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expectation of ln(1+e^x) [closed]
x is a normal distributed variable. then what is the expectation of ln(1+e^x).
i simulated this distribution and find that when x is N(0, 100), the mean of this function is around …
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A sampling and learning question
Suppose there is an oracle that returns a number $b \in \mathbb{Z}_{n}$ whenever I press the button.
We have $b = a + e$, where $a \in \mathbb{Z}_n$ is a fixed number and $e$ is s …
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The average number of people that can sit on a bench of a given length.
Let me explain what I mean:
The width of the average person varies, perhaps with a normal distribution.
Given a specific variance, how many people (on average) can sit side-by-si …
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Random variables related through nonlinear system of equations
I asked this question on http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/377140/random-variables-related-through-nonlinear-system-of-equations, however I received no answer for a while so …
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Computing hypergeometric function of matrix argument
In the context of the Bingham probability distribution the ${ }_1F_1$ hypergeometric function of matrix argument naturally arises as a normalization constant of the probability dis …

