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Add statistics recipe for sampling from an estimated probability density distribution #117221

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kde_random() recipe
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Tweak markup and wording
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The aliases are visual clutter and not essential to the recipe.
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Add invcdf() / cdf() round trip tests
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Merge branch 'main' into kde_rand_recipe
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More direct description of the recipe
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Tighter wording
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Separate core logic from formatting in the example
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Moving seeding to just before calling rand()
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More brief section title
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choice() and random() do not commute
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Expand Up @@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ function from discrete samples. Some applications need a way to make
random selections from that distribution.

The technique is to pick a sample from a bandwidth scaled kernel
function and recenter the result our around a randomly chosen point from
function and recenter the result around a randomly chosen point from
the input data. This can be done with any kernel that has a known or
accurately approximated inverse cumulative distribution function.

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