[/ Wikipedia definition is The difference between two independent identically distributed
exponential random variables is governed by a Laplace distribution.]
-For location parameter [mu][space] and scale parameter [sigma][space], it is defined by the
+For location parameter ['[mu]] and scale parameter ['[sigma]], it is defined by the
probability density function:
[equation laplace_pdf]
standard deviation of the normal or Gaussian distribution.
The following graph illustrates the effect of the
-parameters [mu][space] and [sigma][space] on the PDF.
+parameters [mu] and [sigma] on the PDF.
Note that the domain of the random variable remains
\[-[infin],+[infin]\] irrespective of the value of the location parameter:
* M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions, 1972, p. 930.
-[endsect][/section:laplace_dist laplace]
+[endsect] [/section:laplace_dist laplace]
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