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Definition:
Let X be a continuous real-valued random variable,
its cumulative distribution function is:
Theorem:
If X has a density f(x) then:
is the cdf and
Proof:
Property 1. comes from the definition of probability as a function
of the density:
.
Property 2 is due to the fundamental theorem of calculus.
Susan Holmes
1998-12-07