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Probability Distribution: Definition, Types, and Uses in Investing

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Some Results on the Discretization of Continuous Probability Distributions

A continuous r. v. can only hypothetically assume any value on a continuum. When only an approximating discrete r. v. ("discretization") is observable, estimation procedures employing the hypothetical ...
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SimCorrMix: Simulation of correlated data with multiple variable types including continuous and count mixture distributions

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Optimal Thresholds for a Mixture of Lognormal Distributions as the Continuous Part of the Mixed Distribution

Vol. 33, No. 12, HYDROLOGICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RAINFALL MEASUREMENT AND PREDICTABILITY (December 1994), pp. 1543-1550 (8 pages) The paper considers a mixture of two and three lognormal ...
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What Is a Binomial Distribution?

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