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Location parameter

In statistics, if a family of probabiblity densities parametrized by a scalar- or vector-valued parameter μ is of the form
fμ(x)=f(x-μ)
then μ is called a location parameter, since its value determines the "location" of the probability distribution.

See also numerical parameter



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