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Mathematical theory of statistics, concerned with formal definitions and general results.

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How can I analytically prove that randomly dividing an amount results in an exponential dist...

To say, "suppose you randomly divide 500 million in income among 10,000 people" is insufficiently specific to answer the question. There are many different random process that could be used to allocat …
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