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In probability and statistics, a probability distribution assigns a probability to each measurable subset of the possible outcomes of a random experiment, survey, or procedure of statistical inference.

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Eigenvalue distribution of a random matrix

More of a comment to indicate how hopeless this is: Consider the edge case of $\sigma_{ij} = \lambda_i \delta_{ij}.$ The unitary matrix then is the identity matrix, so is quite far from Haar distribut …
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Concentration properties of inner-products in high-dimension

Since you have the same concentration properties when $d=0,$ and $A$ is a point (by rotation invariance), the answer is Yes, there is always concentration.
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Distribution of sum of two permutation matrices

Well, not an answer, but with probability $2/e$ the two permutations map some $i$ to the (same) $j,$ which means that both the determinant and the permanent of the difference is $0.$ Also with probabi …
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Why Expected squared length of a projected vector on reduced dimensionality coordinates is k/d?

This not really appropriate for MO, but the proof follows immediately from additivity of expectation. The expected length squared of the vector is $L,$ that means that the expected square of a coordin …
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Entropy of the multinomial distribution

I am not at all sure I understand the question, since the OP's reference [2] has a formula for the entropy, and has asymptotics in the equidistributed case (the latter on page 7, the former on page 5, …
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Distribution of infinity-norm over the unit sphere

There is a trick to reduce these kinds of questions to questions about independent normals, as in my ancient preprint. For large $n,$ concentration of measure will presumably give you easy estimates.
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PDF of the product of normal and Cauchy distributions

Assuming the normal is centered with variance $s$ and the Cauchy distribution has parameters $a, b$, combining this Wikipedia page and Mathematica gives $$ \text{ConditionalExpression}\left[\frac{i \ …
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Expectation of exp(-1/(ax^2)) when x is a standard normal variable and a>0 is a parameter

$$e^{-{\sqrt{2/a}}}$$ is what Mathematica says...
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Results regarding $E[\min X,Y]$. when $X$ and $Y$ are independent, of given distributions.

If the cumulative distribution function of $X$ is $G$ while the probabiity density $g=G^\prime,$ then the probability density of $\min(X, X^\prime)$ is $2 g G.$ Similarly, if the CDF of $Y$ is $H,$ wi …
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Product of densities of a wrapped normal distribution

This is really a follow-up on Suvrit's comment. There are plenty of formulas for products of theta functions, many of them found in this Iowa State report. (see particularly page 7). Whether any of th …
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What does it mean to sample a value x* from f(x)?

I am not going to answer the philosophical question of "what does it mean", but for the practical question, there is the Ziggurat method of Marsaglia to generate a sample from your favorite distributi …
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Sum of Squares of Normal distributions

All you could conceivably want to know about the subject (and many things you might not) are in Mathai + Provost, Quadratic Forms in Random Variables.
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2/3 power law in the plane

It is a theorem of Renyi and Soulanke that the cardinality of the boundary of a convex hull of a uniformly distributed random point set of cardinality $N$ in a smooth convex set grows like $N^{1/3},$ …
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probability computation involving sum of log-normal random variables

Is $N$ large (where "large" is probably "bigger than five", in practice)? If it is, the central limit theorem gives a good approximation to the distribution of $\sum_{i=1}^N x_i,$ assuming some weak c …
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expected value of inner products of iid standard normal vectors

I must be misunderstanding the question, but $<x, y>^2$ is a sum of the terms of the form $x_i x_j y_i y_j.$ The expectation of this term vanishes, unless $i=j,$ in which case it (the . expectation) i …
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