Additive Noise
An alternative way of thinking of location families is through the concept of additive noise. If μ is an unknown constant and W is random noise with probability density, then has probability density and is therefore a location family.
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“It is as real
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and are there and are true.
What else is this, this intricate shape of air?
calling me, calling you.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)