Below you will find example sentences with "exponential distribution". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Exponential Distribution in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 19
- Discovered as a combination around: distribution
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 13
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 23.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 8 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "exponential distribution" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 23.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a negative exponential distribution, an unknown exponential distribution a common, distributions, pareto and two stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with electricity distribution, normal distribution, probability distribution, electricity distribution, normal distribution and probability distribution, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with exponential distribution
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In this example, we have used an exponential distribution. (9 words)
Related distributions * Exponential distribution is closed under scaling by a positive factor. (12 words)
See also * Dead time – an application of exponential distribution to particle detector analysis. (13 words)
Pareto Q-Q plots compare the quantiles of the log-transformed data to the corresponding quantiles of an exponential distribution with mean 1 (or to the quantiles of a standard Pareto distribution) by plotting the former versus the latter. (39 words)
Cho and Garcia-Molina show that the exponential distribution is a good fit for describing page changes, while Ipeirotis et al. show how to use statistical tools to discover parameters that affect this distribution. (34 words)
We can see that using this method, many points end up close to 0 and only few points end up having high x-values - just as it is expected for an exponential distribution. (33 words)
Example sentences (19)
Relation to other distributions Relation to the exponential distribution The Pareto distribution is related to the exponential distribution as follows.
While the exponential distribution is sometimes appropriate to model survival, the actual distribution of lifespans in many settings do not follow the exponential distribution.
Benford's law also describes the exponential distribution and the ratio distribution of two exponential distributions well.
Fitted cumulative exponential distribution to annually maximum 1-day rainfalls using CumFreq citation Reliability theory and reliability engineering also make extensive use of the exponential distribution.
Introduction to the exponential distribution The exponential distribution is used to model the time between the occurrence of events in an interval of time, or the distance between events in space.
Cho and Garcia-Molina show that the exponential distribution is a good fit for describing page changes, while Ipeirotis et al. show how to use statistical tools to discover parameters that affect this distribution.
Pareto Q-Q plots compare the quantiles of the log-transformed data to the corresponding quantiles of an exponential distribution with mean 1 (or to the quantiles of a standard Pareto distribution) by plotting the former versus the latter.
The graph of the exponential distribution, called the probability density function (PDF), shows the distribution of time (or distance) between events.
When the expression defines the interior of an ellipse and the chi-squared distribution simplifies to an exponential distribution with mean equal to two.
In this example, we have used an exponential distribution.
It is assumed that the call arrivals can be modeled by a Poisson process and that call holding times are described by a negative exponential distribution.
Prediction Having observed a sample of n data points from an unknown exponential distribution a common task is to use these samples to make predictions about future data from the same source.
Related distributions * Exponential distribution is closed under scaling by a positive factor.
See also * Dead time – an application of exponential distribution to particle detector analysis.
The graph of an exponential distribution starts on the y-axis at a positive value (called lambda, λ) and decreases to the right.
The probability of two failures in the same 10-hour period was twice as large as predicted by an exponential distribution.
The time between magnitude 5 earthquakes per year in California may not follow an exponential distribution, if one large earthquake increases the probability of aftershocks of similar magnitude.
This is because the exponential distribution has a long tail for positive values but is zero for negative numbers.
We can see that using this method, many points end up close to 0 and only few points end up having high x-values - just as it is expected for an exponential distribution.