exponential distribution
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exponential
adjective
uk/ˌek.spəˈnen.ʃəl/us/ˌek.spoʊˈnen.ʃəl/
formal
An exponential rate of increase becomes quicker and quicker as the thing that increases ...
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distribution
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
the process of giving things out to several people, or spreading or ...
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Theexponentialdistributionhas considerable importance and has had widespread use in the analysis of data in which the response variable is a lifetime.
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Theexponentialdistributionof step durations suggests that the shut-off of activated rhodopsin under these conditions is rate limited by a single first-order process.
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For each newly infected individual, a duration of carriage was drawn from theexponentialdistributionwith a mean of 4 months.
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Each robot enters the common workspace withexponentialdistribution, parameter k for robot k.
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In our model the recovery rate is assumed to be constant with anexponentialdistributionof carriage duration.
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However, it might be the case that it is the nice properties of theexponentialdistributionthat makes a simple expression possible.
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As with the incidence rate data, we interpolated the mortality data to an annual basis using theexponentialdistribution.
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The upper plot is for constant fitness effects, and the lower one for variable fitness effects (according to theexponentialdistribution).
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In this analysis we run two models, one specifies the onesided error term as following a half-normal distribution and the other anexponentialdistribution.
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For theexponentialdistribution, 5000 realizations of the process s0,500 were generated.
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The parameters are = 0.05 and = 1, whereas initial endowments are drawn from anexponentialdistribution.
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To aggregate species, we specify anexponentialdistributionfunction, l(n).
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By the memoryless property of theexponentialdistribution, the new node is added uniformly to an already discovered node.
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We have considered theexponentialdistribution(shape parameter l 1), and the case when l 2, which gives a skewed, bell-shaped distribution.
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In this study, we used semi-parametric proportional hazards modelling over parametric approach withexponentialdistribution.
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Because the incidence rates of these hip fractures appeared to increase exponentially across age intervals, we interpolated the incidence rates using theexponentialdistribution.
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This negativeexponentialdistributiondoes not agree with observed data on incubation times (see above).
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All other entries are unchanged in distribution by the memorylessness of theexponentialdistribution.
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