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location parameter
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Location parameter
In
statistics
, a
location family
is a class of
probability distributions
that is
parametrized
by a scalar- or vector-valued parameter
, which determines the "location" or shift of the distribution. Formally, this means that the
probability density functions
or
probability mass functions
in this class have the form
Here,
is called the
location parameter
. Examples of location parameters include the
mean
, the
median
, and the
mode
.
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