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Uniform distribution (discrete)

In mathematics, the discrete uniform distribution are probability distributions that can be characterized by saying that all values of a finite set of possible values are equally probable.

A random variable that has any of n possible values x1, x2, ..., xn that are equally probable has a discrete uniform distribution, then the probability of any outcome xi is 1/n. A simple example of the discrete uniform distribution is throwing a fair die. The possible values of x are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; and each time the die is thrown, the probability of a given score is 1/6.

In case the values of a random variable with a discrete uniform distribution are real, is possible to express the cumulative distribution function in terms of the degenerate distribution, thus

F(x)={1\over N}\sum_{i=1}^N\theta(x-x_i)

where the Heaviside step function θ(x) is the CDF of the degenerate distribution at x = 0.

01-04-2007 01:16:19
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