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How do you calculate %xHKO?
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Stereo Wrote:I'd like to go on record saying that the distribution of the sum of uniform distributions is not fun to work with Tongue

You can probably do it algebraically using multiple variable integrals of the p.d.f. (uniform distribution is P(x) = H(x) +(-1)H(x-1) ) so you end up with something like integral y = -inf to inf P(x)P(y) dy But just the fact that it's a piecewise function makes it annoying to work with.

Which, in 2 variables, just ends up being a triangle. P(x) = xH(x) - 2(x-1)H(x-1) + (x-2)H(x-2) But that limits you to finding 2hko probabilities. As a diagram, this would be like the diagonal area under a square, where the square has uniform height.

In the long run just running a few thousand simulations will probably get you close enough, and be a lot easier to write.
Well then what the hell did I do and why does it work for all numbers of hits? Also, as much as I'd like to claim otherwise, I don't really understand your math lingo.
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How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Dusk - 2009-08-14, 11:40 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Kortestanov - 2009-08-14, 12:45 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Shidoshi - 2009-08-14, 01:59 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Stereo - 2009-08-14, 02:00 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by KaidaTan - 2009-08-14, 05:29 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2009-08-14, 05:41 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by modular - 2009-08-14, 06:59 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2009-08-14, 07:01 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Shidoshi - 2009-08-14, 08:45 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by singularity - 2009-08-15, 06:23 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2009-08-15, 12:56 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Shady - 2009-08-15, 04:30 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by singularity - 2009-08-18, 12:19 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Stereo - 2009-08-18, 12:29 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2009-08-18, 12:39 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Dusk - 2009-08-18, 12:57 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by modular - 2009-08-18, 12:57 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2009-08-18, 01:03 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Dusk - 2009-08-18, 01:21 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Dusk - 2009-08-23, 01:45 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2009-08-23, 01:56 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by singularity - 2009-08-24, 10:38 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2009-08-24, 10:51 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Noah - 2009-08-26, 04:38 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by rainbowBean - 2009-12-14, 08:22 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by KaidaTan - 2009-12-14, 09:07 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Stereo - 2009-12-14, 12:19 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by KaidaTan - 2009-12-14, 04:19 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by shouri - 2009-12-14, 04:42 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by KaidaTan - 2009-12-14, 05:02 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2009-12-14, 08:46 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by shouri - 2009-12-14, 08:56 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Noah - 2009-12-14, 09:32 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Stereo - 2009-12-14, 09:33 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2009-12-14, 09:40 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by KaidaTan - 2009-12-14, 10:32 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by rainbowBean - 2009-12-14, 11:01 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2009-12-15, 03:50 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by KaidaTan - 2009-12-15, 03:54 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Stereo - 2009-12-15, 03:51 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Noah - 2009-12-16, 09:28 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Stereo - 2010-01-18, 09:17 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Jellyflower - 2010-02-23, 08:30 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Jellyflower - 2010-02-23, 10:18 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by KaidaTan - 2010-02-23, 10:34 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2010-02-23, 10:42 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Noah - 2010-03-06, 06:51 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2010-03-06, 09:08 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Shidoshi - 2010-03-06, 10:40 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2010-03-06, 10:50 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Stereo - 2010-03-06, 11:42 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Noah - 2010-03-06, 12:39 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Russt - 2010-03-06, 02:57 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Noah - 2010-03-08, 12:00 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Kortestanov - 2010-05-03, 08:39 AM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by Nikkey - 2010-05-03, 12:11 PM
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How do you calculate %xHKO? - by KaidaTan - 2010-05-03, 02:24 PM
How do you calculate %xHKO? - by shouri - 2010-05-03, 02:24 PM
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