Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 45, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER 2013), pp. 876-893 (18 pages) For a family of linear preferential attachment graphs, we provide rates of convergence for the total variation ...

All sorts of physical processes in this analog world exhibit some degree of randomness. Think of noise, for example. Many noisy processes are described by Gaussian probability distributions. We should ...

The normal distribution is the probability distribution that plots all of its values along a symmetrical bell curve, with the highest probabilities centered around the mean value and tapering out ...