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A probability provides a quantitative description of the likely occurrence of a particular event.

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Can I use moments of a distribution to sample the distribution?

I notice in statistics/machine learning methods, a distribution is often approximated by a Gaussian, and then that Gaussian is used for sampling. They start by computing the first two moments of the d …
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