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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