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Name: Fundamental Probability Density Functions and Properties
ID: m11436
Language: English (en)
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: central, chi-squated, degrees of freedom, exponential PDF, Gaussian, multivariate Gaussian, normal, PDF, right-tail probability, standard normal
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Clayton Scott (cscott@rice.edu), Robert Nowak (nowak@engr.wisc.edu)
Copyright Holders: Clayton Scott (cscott@rice.edu), Robert Nowak (nowak@engr.wisc.edu)
Maintainers: Clayton Scott (cscott@rice.edu), Robert Nowak (nowak@engr.wisc.edu), Elizabeth Gregory (elizabeth.gregory@gmail.com), Jeffrey Silverman (JSilverman@astro.berkeley.edu)
Latest version: 1.3 (history)
First publication date: Jun 27, 2003 10:28 am -0500
Last revision to module: Dec 15, 2003 2:13 am -0600

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Version History

Version: 1.3 Dec 15, 2003 2:13 am -0600 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes: 
Added two figures and fixed a few small markup problems.
Version: 1.2 Aug 7, 2003 2:49 pm -0500 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes: 
Added Clay as an author and maintainer.
Version: 1.1 Jul 10, 2003 11:49 am -0500 by Jeffrey Silverman
Changes: 
First Version.

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