Arcsine distribution
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In probability theory, the arcsine distribution is the probability distribution whose cumulative distribution function involves the arcsine and the square root:
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for 0 ≤ x ≤ 1, and whose probability density function is
on (0, 1). The standard arcsine distribution is a special case of the beta distribution with α = β = 1/2. That is, if is an arcsine-distributed random variable, then . By extension, the arcsine distribution is a special case of the Pearson type I distribution.
The arcsine distribution appears in the Lévy arcsine law, in the Erdős arcsine law, and as the Jeffreys prior for the probability of success of a Bernoulli trial.[1][2]