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| May 21, 2013 at 8:51 | answer | added | conjectures | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 21, 2013 at 8:44 | comment | added | wolfies |
@anna wrote: When you prescribe "random number" by definition it is the uniform distribution ... not at all. There are infinitely many distributions with domain of support on (0,1). A random variable whose distribution has not been specified is just a random variable whose distribution has either not been specified, or is not known.
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| May 21, 2013 at 8:40 | history | migrated | from physics.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| May 21, 2013 at 8:36 | comment | added | siangkang | alright thanks! @Qmechanic: dunno that stats.stackexchange existed till now, I posted it here because I was reading a physics textbook, thanks anyway. | |
| May 21, 2013 at 7:27 | comment | added | anna v | When you prescribe "random number" by definition it is the uniform distribution. The one that tells us that throwing a dice will come up with the face six 1/6th of the time. | |
| May 21, 2013 at 7:14 | comment | added | siangkang | Exponential: Radioactive decay | |
| May 21, 2013 at 7:09 | comment | added | siangkang | Using uniform distribution, my answer will be 0.1. Seems very sloppy though. | |
| May 21, 2013 at 6:55 | history | asked | siangkang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |