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Re: Determining if samples are normal


From: Mike Miller
Subject: Re: Determining if samples are normal
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:25:12 -0500 (CDT)

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Robert A. Macy wrote:

rarely enhances the edges but definitely moves the
weighting towards the average.

Learn something everyday.

For more ideas, you could read about the "Central Limit Theorem."


So what is the PDF if the two are multiplied?

Something else, but nothing simple. If the RVs are uniform on (0,1) and independent, then the natural log of the square of the reciprocal of the product of those RVs is chi-square on 4 df -- that will probably give you a start on the problem.

Mike



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