Variance matters more than mean in the extremes
The Endeavour 2024-08-26
Summary:
Suppose you have two normal random variables, X and Y, and that the variance of X is less than the variance of Y. Let M be an equal mixture of X and Y. That is, to sample from M, you first chose X or Y with equal probability, then you choose a sample from the […]
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