The Rice distribution
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The Rice distribution is characterises the magnitude of a
circular bivariate normal random vector with potentially non-zero mean.
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Distribution name
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Rice
distribution
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Common notation
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Parameters
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 =
parameter
 =
parameter
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Domain
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Probability density
function
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where  is
the modified Bessel function of the first kind of order zero, i.e. 
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Cumulative distribution
function
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where  is
the Marcum Q-function, i.e.  .
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Mean
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Variance
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Other comments
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The Rayleigh
distribution is a special case of the Rice distribution where  .
Its non-central moments are:
where  is
a Laguerre polynomial.
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Nematrian web functions
This distribution is not currently supported within the Nematrian
web function library. For details of supported probability distributions
see here.
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