Dependent variables change based on other inputs in financial models, affecting investment outcomes. Independent variables like earnings affect dependent variables, influencing metrics like P/E ratios ...
Abstract: Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) harness quantum mechanical unpredictability to produce true randomness, which is crucial for cryptography and secure communications. Among various ...
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Cumulative Distribution Function, or CDF, is a useful statistical tool that helps to understand the probability distribution of a random variable. It is particularly helpful in analyzing the ...
Quantum annealing (QA) can be competitive to classical algorithms in optimizing continuous-variable functions when running on appropriate hardware, show researchers from Tokyo Tech. By comparing the ...
Roll a die and ask students to identify the random variable. Since a die can only take on values of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, this is a discrete random variable. Repeat ...
Department of Physics, Trinity College, Hartford, USA. Although the SARS-Cov-2 virus presents many biochemical and biophysical mysteries for scientists to research, the question of greatest import for ...
Abstract: We deal with the problem of creating empirical CDF (ECDF) for a continuous random variable X, defined as time of an event of interest, such as failure or repair. The data sample to construct ...