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In this chapter we will introduce some terms to give us a common language. We will be dealing for the most part with properties of a non-decreasing function of x which goes from 0 at the lower limit to 1 at the upper limit of x.

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Roe, B.P. (1992). Some Initial Definitions. In: Probability and Statistics in Experimental Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2186-7_2

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