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This tag concerns statistical distributions, their implementations, and properties.

Creating Gaussian random variable with MATLAB

By using randn function I want to create a Gaussian random variable X such that X ~ N(2,4) and plot this …

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Find local maximums in numpy array

I am looking to find the peaks in some gaussian smoothed data that I have. I have looked at some …

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Efficiently generating random bytes of data in C++11/14

My requirement is to generate random bytes of data (not random numbers) aka uniformly distributed bits. As such I was …

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random unit vector in multi-dimensional space

I'm working on a data mining algorithm where i want to pick a random direction from a particular point in …

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How to generate a unit vector pointing in a random direction with isotropic distribution of direction?

I need to create a method to generate a unit vector in three dimensions that points in a random direction …

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How to set C# library path for an application?

I have C# application that uses a dll. When I try to run the application, it can't find the dll, …

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Python: create a distribution from a list based on number of items that fall within certain ranges

I tagged this question with poisson as I am not sure if it will be helpful in this case. I …

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How to capture video using JMF, but without installing JMF

A videoconferencing project I was working on used JMF to capture video and audio, and transmit it to another endpoint. …

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What do all the distributions available in scipy.stats look like?

Visualizing scipy.stats distributions A histogram can be made of the scipy.stats normal random variable to see what the …

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How to generate a distribution with a given mean, variance, skew and kurtosis in Python?

random.gauss(mu, sigma) Above is a function allowing to randomly draw a number from a normal distribution with a …

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