Hi, The following question might sound stupid, but occured to me while thinking about MATH-692. So here goes. What was initially meant by "Continuous Distribution" (as in AbstractContinuousDistribution) ? My view on this is that the underlying random variable is defined by a *density*, which takes *continuous* arguments. But nothing prevents this density to be infinite at some *discrete* points (Dirac generalized function). Then the cumulative sum would be only piecewise C1. When these distributions were first implemented, was it intended to include this case? I should add that this case is not purely academic: it is frequently met in the analysis of random heterogeneous materials (for example: assemblies of hard, monodisperse spheres of radius 0.5: some observables have such a singularity at r = 1).
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