The mixed model with one factor represented by fixed effects, one factor by random effects, and a normal error, has often stipulated that these random effects be a sample drawn from a normally ...

A survey is given of general properties of normal variance-mean mixtures, including various new results. In particular, it is shown that the class of self-reciprocal normal variance mixtures is rather ...

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 ...

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