Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gaussian minus exponential distribution Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gaussian_minus_exponential_distribution

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect to List of probability distributions. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:49, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gaussian minus exponential distribution

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Non-notable content (Previous PROD was removed). No references provided and it would be wrong to have articles for all possible pairs of distributions Melcombe (talk) 15:45, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:53, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The article is indeed poorly sourced, but for hardcore scientific terms I found myself may times googling and eventually finding the wikipedia entry to clarify most of the questions I had. At worst, this should be merged, but I prefer an expert to provide some relevant references instead and keep the article. Nergaal (talk) 19:59, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Completely unsourced article which appears to contain serious errors. GB/GS searches find no reliable publications: just one MSc thesis. -- Radagast 3 (talk) 22:22, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No sources appear to single out this distribution for discussion. For those unfamiliar, this is the distribution of the difference of a Gaussian random variable and an independent exponential random variable. (It is strange that the article totally fails to point this out.) There is no indication why this difference would be notable, as opposed to the difference of any two other probability distributions, and a literature search also turns up nothing in particular. Working out the pdf and cdf of such a distribution is essentially routine, so there isn't really any nontrivial content that deserves to be merged anywhere. Sławomir Biały (talk) 13:05, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of probability distributions. This is a perfectly valid search term, and there is no reason to delete. --Lambiam 14:47, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.