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What is the resulting distribution of a data set that was originally normally distributed but has been quantized and had all negative values removed?
I am trying to benchmark a seasonal forecasting model and calculate not just the point forecasts but the forecast densities from the model.
To do this, I generated a simulated data set in the ...
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Closeness of 2-parametric discrete distributions when first 2 moments are matching
Let $\mathcal{D}$ be a particular 2-parameter uni-variate discrete distribution family, and let $D(\theta_1, \theta_2) \in \mathcal{D}$ be one particular distribution from this family, where $\theta_i ...
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Learn a distribution from distributions on samples [closed]
There's many good ways to learn a distribution $p_X$ of an r.v. $X$ over $k$ symbols given many i.i.d. samples $X_1,\ldots, X_n$. The simplest is to use the sample relative frequencies $\hat{f}_X$ as ...
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