The Rademacher distribution #
The Rademacher law is the probability measure on ℝ assigning equal mass to -1 and 1.
This file gives its masses and support, cumulative distribution and quantile, natural moments,
and moment- and characteristic-function formulas, and the fact that a variable with this law is
almost surely ±1.
The Rademacher law, assigning probability 1 / 2 to each of -1 and 1.
Instances For
The Rademacher law is the equally weighted sum of the Dirac masses at -1 and 1.
The Rademacher law is a probability measure.
The Rademacher law is invariant under reflection in the origin.
The Rademacher law is invariant under negation.
Integration against the Rademacher law is the average of evaluation at -1 and 1.
Every function is integrable with respect to the finitely supported Rademacher law.
The topological support of the Rademacher law consists exactly of its two atoms.
The cumulative distribution function of the Rademacher law.
The lower quantile tends to the lower endpoint of the Rademacher support as the level tends to zero from above.
The lower quantile tends to the upper endpoint of the Rademacher support as the level tends to one from below.
Every natural power is integrable under the Rademacher law.
The Rademacher law is centered.
The variance of the Rademacher law is one.
Every exponential moment of the Rademacher law is integrable.
The exponential-integrability domain of the Rademacher law is all of ℝ.
The moment-generating function of the Rademacher law is the hyperbolic cosine.
The cumulant-generating function of the Rademacher law is the logarithm of the hyperbolic cosine.
The characteristic function of the Rademacher law is the cosine.
A random variable with the Rademacher law is almost everywhere measurable: an unmeasurable
pushforward is 0 or a Dirac mass, and neither charges both atoms ±1.
A random variable with the Rademacher law equals ±1 almost surely.