Probability theory forms the mathematical backbone for quantifying uncertainty and random events, providing a rigorous language with which to describe both everyday phenomena and complex scientific ...

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The normal distribution is the probability distribution that plots all of its values along a symmetrical bell curve, with the highest probabilities centered around the mean value and tapering out ...

Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, Vol. 35, No. 3 (2021), pp. 435-441 (7 pages) The aim of this note is to give an elegant proof of a result due to E. G. Olds which concerns the density ...