Timeline for Is there a name for a random variable that is the absolute value of the difference between two iid discrete uniform variables?
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| Sep 30, 2020 at 15:52 | comment | added | Simon | Perhaps it doesn't have a (very known) name and "absolute value of a discrete triangular random variable" is good enough. Thank you all anyway. :) | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 9:15 | comment | added | Jeppe Stig Nielsen | The random variable $I-J$ could be called "discrete triangular"; it is centered at zero. But the poster asks for the absolute value of that, namely $Z=|I-J|$. | |
| Sep 28, 2020 at 20:28 | comment | added | user44143 | This is not a discrete triangular distribution, since the probability that the difference is 0 is roughly half the probability that it is 1. | |
| Sep 28, 2020 at 19:51 | comment | added | Simon | Thanks @CarloBeenakker. I see how that distribution is similar, but I don't exactly understand how you would discretize it to yield the distribution I calculated... | |
| S Sep 28, 2020 at 19:42 | history | suggested | RobPratt |
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| Sep 28, 2020 at 18:27 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | this is called a triangular distribution | |
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| Sep 28, 2020 at 17:59 | history | asked | Simon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |