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The world is full of uncertainty: accidents, storms, unruly financial markets, noisy communications. The world is also full of data. Probabilistic modeling and the related field of statistical ...

The probability density function of a uniform random variable looks like a horizontal line segment over the support. This indicates that for any interval of a given length within the support, the ...

The ratio R of two random quantities is frequently encountered in probability and statistics. But while for unidimensional statistical variables the distribution of R can be computed relatively easily ...

Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, Vol. 35, No. 3 (2021), pp. 435-441 (7 pages) The aim of this note is to give an elegant proof of a result due to E. G. Olds which concerns the density ...

A new proof, based on the duality theorem of linear programming, is given of a theorem of V. Strassen, which states essentially that the minimum distance between random variables with given ...

Abstract: In this chapter, we first introduce the joint statistical behavior of multiple random variables, and then the focus turns toward the marginal and conditional cdfs, pdfs, and pmfs. In the ...