Statistics/Distributions/Uniform

Continuous Uniform Distribution

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Uniform
Probability density function
 
Using maximum convention
Cumulative distribution function
 
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Median  
Mode any value in  
Variance  
Skewness 0
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MGF  
CF  

The (continuous) uniform distribution, as its name suggests, is a distribution with probability densities that are the same at each point in an interval. In casual terms, the uniform distribution shapes like a rectangle.

Mathematically speaking, the probability density function of the uniform distribution is defined as

 

 

And the cumulative distribution function is:

 

Mean

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We derive the mean as follows.

 

As the uniform distribution is 0 everywhere but [a, b] we can restrict ourselves that interval

 
 
 
 

Variance

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We use the following formula for the variance.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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