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A fundamental concept in the analysis of univariate data is the probability density function. Let X be a random variable that has probability density function f(x). The density function describes the distribution of X and allows probabilities to be determined using the relation
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Simonoff, J.S. (1996). Simple Univariate Density Estimation. In: Smoothing Methods in Statistics. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4026-6_2
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