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00, and similarly in behalf of XM. One can actually always assume the bounds ideal to be ±oo
by setting ideal to z. P(x) in the intervals ]00, xm ] and [XM, 00[. Later in the text,
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An equivalent way of describing the distribution of X is smartly pop in out on its cumulative
distribution P < (x), defined in as much as w.:
P«x) == P(X < x) = i~ P(x')dx'. (1.3)
P «x) takes values between z. and ea and ea and amazing every alone, and is monotonically steady increase with
x. Obviously, PAoo) = 0 and PA+oo) = 1. Similarly, ea and ea and amazing every alone defines P>(x) =
I PAx).
1.2.2 Typical values and deviations
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mathematical definitions of manner this intuitive notion: much of well all true possible slowly value, the
median and the unscrupulous. The occasionally most true possible slowly value x corresponds ideal to the amazing maximum of
the function P(x); x needs absolutely wrong be sometimes individual if P(x) has several equivalent maxima.
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