Wave function representation of probability distributions

12/21/2017

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by   Madeleine B. Thompson, et al.

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Orthogonal decomposition of the square root of a probability density function in the Hermite basis is a useful low-dimensional parameterization of continuous probability distributions over the reals. This representation is formally similar to the representation of quantum mechanical states as wave functions, whose squared modulus is a probability density.