Timeline for Why are probability distributions denoted with a tilde?
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Jan 9, 2023 at 15:49 | comment | added | Nathan G | Tilde ∼ means "is sampled from this distribution" | |
Aug 29, 2022 at 15:34 | comment | added | Nick Cox | It's an oddity (to me) that there is nothing like a standard notation for median, but the fact that a tilde over a symbol may be sometimes be used for median, or indeed for other summaries of a variable, has nothing whatsoever to do with this notation. | |
Aug 29, 2022 at 13:51 | history | protected | kjetil b halvorsen♦ | ||
Aug 29, 2022 at 13:46 | comment | added | Rafaqat | In statistics it is used over variable to show the median~X | |
Jan 15, 2018 at 16:22 | history | edited | kjetil b halvorsen♦ |
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Apr 23, 2017 at 16:46 | history | edited | kjetil b halvorsen♦ |
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May 5, 2013 at 7:27 | vote | accept | jsj | ||
Dec 31, 2012 at 2:50 | answer | added | Ben O'Neill | timeline score: 15 | |
Oct 28, 2012 at 1:59 | vote | accept | jsj | ||
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Oct 27, 2012 at 22:41 | answer | added | kjetil b halvorsen♦ | timeline score: 23 | |
Oct 27, 2012 at 19:23 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | @Procrastinator: you should go ahead and submit this as an answer. I don't think it will get any better. | |
Oct 27, 2012 at 18:06 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackStats/status/262253950726721537 | ||
Oct 27, 2012 at 15:40 | comment | added | user10525 | Have a look at point 4 of this entry from Wolfram MathWorld. | |
Oct 27, 2012 at 15:37 | history | edited | user10525 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Oct 27, 2012 at 15:31 | history | asked | jsj | CC BY-SA 3.0 |