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How does one measure the non-uniformity of a distribution?
I'm trying to come up with a metric for measuring non-uniformity of a distribution for an experiment I'm running. I have a random variable that should be uniformly distributed in most cases, and I'd ...
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Mean and variance of a normally distributed random number created from the average of a set of uniformly distributed random numbers
An old-fashioned way of generating normally distributed random numbers entailed setting each normally distributed random number equal to the average of a set of uniformly distributed random numbers, ...
