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### expectation of maximum of iid random variables from normal distribution. [duplicate]

1) How to find expectation of max of random variables , i.e : $\mathbb{E}[max(x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n)]$ where $x$ are IID random variables from $\mathcal{N}(\mu,\sigma^2)$. I know that CDF is $F(x)^n$ ...
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Say $x_1$ and $x_2$ are normal random variables with known means and standard deviations and $C$ is a constant. If $y = \max(x_1,x_2,C)$, what is $\mathrm{Var}(y)$? Well, I forgot to tell that $x_1$ ...
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I have a problem where my errors are normally distributed and I want to know what the expected maximum error is if I repeat the process $n$ times. What is the smallest constant $C$ such that the ...
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Given $n$ independent random variables $X_i$ with normal distribution, mean $\mu$, variance $\sigma^2$, what is the distribution of $\max\limits_{i=1}^n(X_i)$ ? In particular I am interested in ...
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### Range of i.i.d. normal random variables

Let $X_1, \dotsc, X_n$ be i.i.d. standard normal random variables. Define the range $R \in \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$ as $R = \max \{X_1, \dotsc, X_n\} - \min \{X_1, \dotsc, X_n \}$. I am looking for a ...
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### PDF for minimum and maximum of n independent Gaussian random variables

Stimulated by the problem Let $Z\sim N(0,1)$ be a random variable, then $E[\max\{Z,0\}]$ is? I came up with this problem: Let $x_i, i=1..n$ be $n$ independent random variables $\sim N(0,1)$. 1) ...
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Let $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ be a sequence of i.i.d. standard Gaussian random variables. Denote the maximum of this sequence by $M_n$. I am interested in evaluating the following expectation: \tag{1}\...