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Box-Muller transform

Box-Muller transform 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.

Noun

Box-Muller transform

  1. 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.

Origin of Box-Muller transform

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

Questions about Box-Muller transform

What does Box-Muller transform mean?
Box-Muller transform means 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.
What part of speech is Box-Muller transform?
Box-Muller transform is a noun.

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