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What's the distribution of $(a-d)^2+4bc$, where $a,b,c,d$ are uniform distributions?

I have four independent uniformly distributed variables $a,b,c,d$, each in $[0,1]$. I want to calculate the distribution of $(a-d)^2+4bc$. I computed the distribution of $u_2=4bc$ to be $$f_2(u_2)=-\...
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PDF of a sum of dependent variables

This is a direct continuation of my recent question. The thing that I actually want to get is the distribution of $a+d+\sqrt{(a-d)^2+4bc}$, where $a,b,c,d$ are uniform in $[0,1]$. Now, the ...
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How to estimate true value and 95% bands when distribution is asymmetrical?

I have a set of results of independent measurements of some physical quantity. As an example I give here real expermental data on methanol refractive index at 25 degrees Celsius published in ...
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Maximum Uncertainty in Normal Distribution

While reading Goodfellow's Deep Learning Book, I came across the below fact about Normal Distribution. I am not sure I have understood what led to this conclusion, Can someone help with it? "Out ...
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Fitting one set of data with two functions

I have a set of data (42 points): ...
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Samples from a multivariate t distribution

Hi I have the following problem. I draw a sample of a multivariate t-distribution with some fixed covariance matrix, so that the realizations are correlated, and $\nu=4$. Now I repeat this $n$ times, ...
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Number of simulated statistics more extreme than most extreme real data statistic

I have a distribution of $n_{obs}$ "real" data observations drawn from a normal distribution $X \sim N(\mu,\sigma^2)$, and a number $Q$ of simulated realizations of the same distribution, ...
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How to expand $\text{erf}\bigg(\frac{(ax-b)}{\sqrt{2}}\bigg) = \text{erf}\bigg(\frac{ax}{\sqrt{2}}\bigg) + \text{some_value}$?

The error function is defined as, $$\text{erf}\bigg(\frac{(ax-b)}{\sqrt{2}}\bigg) = \frac{2}{\sqrt{\pi}}\int_{0}^{\frac{(ax-b)}{\sqrt{2}}} e^{-t^{2}/2}dt$$. My question is how to expand the above ...
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Is there any relationship between two normalized gamma distributions?

Consider two normalized gamma distribution functions $\frac{\Gamma(x,y)}{\Gamma(x)}$ and $\frac{\Gamma(nx,ny)}{\Gamma(nx)}$ where $n$ is a positive integer value. Is there any relationship between the ...
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Problem with multivariate lognormal distribution in R [closed]

I'm using the R package compositions for the multivariate lognormal distribution. This is the only package I found that supports it. However I'm not sure how this ...
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How to estimate storage needs using the PERT distribution for filesizes? How to aggregate them without falling into the flaw of extremes?

Lets say I know that I am going to store the information of 10,000 people each year for 4 years, that is 40,000 files. Now If I estimate that on the best case scenario the information from each ...
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Uniform Density Function

As we know the uniform probability density function is f(x)=1/(b-a) if i find the density function and area of this uniform distribution between (0, 1/2) then it would be f(x)=1/(1/2-0) f(x)=2 ...
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