Statistics/Distributions/Uniform

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The 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


f\left(x\right)=
\begin{cases}
{1 \over {b-a}}\ \forall\ real\ x\ \in [a,b]
\end{cases}

And the cumulative distribution function is:


F\left(x\right)=
\begin{cases}
0, & \mbox{if } x \le a \\
{{x-a} \over {b-a}}, & \mbox{if } a < x < b\\
1, & \mbox{if } x \ge b
\end{cases}

[edit] Summary statistics of the uniform distribution

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