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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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Distribution and moments of ratio of two beta variables?

OP wrote: what is known about the moments of this ratio? I have not seen the paper ... but one does not even need to derive the distribution of the ratio in order to derive the moments of the ra …
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What's the probability of differences among n independent uniform distribution variables?

Let $X$ ~ Uniform(0,1) with pdf $f(x)$: The joint pdf of the 1st and $n$th order statistics is, say, $g(x_\left(1\right), x_\left(n\right))$: where I am using the OrderStat function from the mat …
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What's the name of this distribution?

While Nadarajah (2005) may have used the term 'generalised Normal' to describe a density that nests this form, there are more suitable names that extend far further back in time, and which accordingly …
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