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box-muller transform

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English

Syllables
box--muller -trans-form
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A pseudorandom number sampling method for generating pairs of independent, standard, normally distributed (zero expectation, unit variance) random numbers, given a source of uniformly distributed random numbers.

Etymology

Named after George Edward Pelham Box and Mervin Edgar Muller, though introduced earlier by Paley and Wiener.

Questions

What does box-muller transform mean?
A pseudorandom number sampling method for generating pairs of independent, standard, normally distributed (zero expectation, unit variance) random numbers, given a source of uniformly distributed random numbers.
Where does box-muller transform come from?
Named after George Edward Pelham Box and Mervin Edgar Muller, though introduced earlier by Paley and Wiener.

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