Continuous Variable: can take on any value between two specified values. Obtained by measuring. Covariance: a measure of the direction of the linear relationship between two variables. Discrete ...

Introduction to probability, random processes and basic statistical methods to address the random nature of signals and systems that engineers analyze, characterize and apply in their designs. It ...

Richard A. Kronmal and Arthur V. Peterson, Jr. The alias method of Walker is a clever, new, fast method for generating random variables from an arbitrary, specified discrete distribution. A simple ...

Let F be a probability distribution on R. Then there exist symmetric (about zero) random variables X and Y whose sum has distribution F if and only if F has mean zero or no mean (finite or infinite).