Box-Muller transform

noun

Etymology

Named after George Edward Pelham Box and Mervin Edgar Muller, though introduced earlier by Paley and Wiener.

Definitions

  1. A pseudorandom number sampling method for generating pairs of independent, standard,…

    A pseudorandom number sampling method for generating pairs of independent, standard, normally distributed (zero expectation, unit variance) random numbers, given a source of uniformly distributed random numbers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Box-Muller transform. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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