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4 Sep 2024 17:22:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Probability question  
From: Invisible
Date: 8 Feb 2010 11:32:41
Message: <4b703ca9$1@news.povray.org>
Kevin Wampler wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>>>> I presume it's relatively easy to work out the inverse function for 
>>>> a normal distribution...
>>>
>>> Actually it's impossible to analytically compute.
>>
>> Define "analytically".
> 
> As a closed-form expression.  As I said, it's still possible to compute 
> numerically.

And Sqrt[2] erf^-1 (2z - 1) doesn't count because...?


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