Stable distribution
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title:
Stable distribution
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In probability theory, a distribution is said to be stable if a linear combination of two independent random variables with this distribution has the same distribution, up to location and scale parameters. A random variable is said to be stable if its distribution is stable. The stable distribution family is also sometimes referred to as the Lévy alpha-stable distribution, after Paul Lévy, the first mathematician to have studied it. Of the four parameters defining the family, most attention has
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Distribution of variables which satisfies a stability property under linear combinations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_distribution
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2004-10-30T14:41:30Z
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2024-08-29T08:00:14Z
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