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Show that sum of two uniformly distributed random variables in not uniformly distributed.

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Answered: Roger Stafford on 17 Nov 2017

I need to show that the sum of two uniformly distributed random variables is not uniformly distributed using Matlab except for the rare case.

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Get a histogram for x = rand(1,n)+rand(1,n) with n a very large number.

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