"Box-Muller transform" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: Named after George Edward Pelham Box and Mervin Edgar Muller, though introduced earlier by Paley and Wiener. Head templates: {{head|en|noun|head=Box-Muller transform}} Box-Muller transform
  1. A pseudorandom number sampling method for generating pairs of independent, standard, normally distributed (zero expectation, unit variance) random numbers, given a source of uniformly distributed random numbers. Wikipedia link: Box-Muller transform, George Edward Pelham Box
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