Thread: Standard Uniform Distribution
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Old July 2nd, 2009, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Deadstar View Post
Never really did much stats so this is probably an easy question.

What values can the standard uniform distribution take? Is it just any value between 0 and 1? Is each value chosen with equal probability?

So for example, if I'm to asked the question...

Calculate t_1 ~ U(0,1) where U is the uniform distribution and t is a random variable. Is that even a properly written out question? Does it just mean t will take a random value between 0 and 1?

As I say I've not done much stats and not entirely sure what the notation stands for.

t ~ U(0,1) means that t has a density that is 1 on (0,1) and 0 otherwise.
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