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  2. Normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    All these extensions are also called normal or Gaussian laws, so a certain ambiguity in names exists. The multivariate normal distribution describes the Gaussian law in the k-dimensional Euclidean space. A vector X ∈ R k is multivariate-normally distributed if any linear combination of its components Σ k j=1 a j X j has a (univariate) normal ...

  3. Gaussian function - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, Gaussian functions are also associated with the vacuum state in quantum field theory. Gaussian beams are used in optical systems, microwave systems and lasers. In scale space representation, Gaussian functions are used as smoothing kernels for generating multi-scale representations in computer vision and image processing.

  4. List of probability distributions - Wikipedia

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    The normal-inverse Gaussian distribution; The Pearson Type IV distribution (see Pearson distributions) The Quantile-parameterized distributions, which are highly shape-flexible and can be parameterized with data using linear least squares. The skew normal distribution; Student's t-distribution, useful for estimating unknown means of Gaussian ...

  5. Probability distribution - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: The left graph shows a probability density function. The right graph shows the cumulative distribution function. The value at a in the cumulative distribution equals the area under the probability density curve up to the point a. Absolutely continuous probability distributions can be described in several ways.

  6. Exponentially modified Gaussian distribution - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory, an exponentially modified Gaussian distribution (EMG, also known as exGaussian distribution) describes the sum of independent normal and exponential random variables. An exGaussian random variable Z may be expressed as Z = X + Y , where X and Y are independent, X is Gaussian with mean μ and variance σ 2 , and Y is ...

  7. Curve fitting - Wikipedia

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    Fitting of a noisy curve by an asymmetrical peak model, with an iterative process (Gauss–Newton algorithm with variable damping factor α).Curve fitting [1] [2] is the process of constructing a curve, or mathematical function, that has the best fit to a series of data points, [3] possibly subject to constraints.

  8. Q-function - Wikipedia

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    With the example coefficients tabulated in the paper for =, the relative and absolute approximation errors are less than and , respectively. The coefficients { ( a n , b n ) } n = 1 N {\displaystyle \{(a_{n},b_{n})\}_{n=1}^{N}} for many variations of the exponential approximations and bounds up to N = 25 {\displaystyle N=25} have been released ...

  9. Voigt profile - Wikipedia

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    The pseudo-Voigt profile (or pseudo-Voigt function) is an approximation of the Voigt profile V(x) using a linear combination of a Gaussian curve G(x) and a Lorentzian curve L(x) instead of their convolution. The pseudo-Voigt function is often used for calculations of experimental spectral line shapes.