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Let us now give some examples of the log-normal distribution. A representation of several types of these distributions is given on the next page as 5.5.11. 

Figure 9.11 on the next page shows the collaboration framework as we would normally draw it. The subject-observers association links particular instances of the two types, and the update action applies only to Observers that have a current Subject. The register action links a particular Subject to a particular Observer. It is a joint action We have not specified here how it happens or even to whom you send the message to make it happen we have specified only that there should be such an action, with responsibility for executing it distributed somehow between Subject and Observer. When designers apply the framework to a particular pair of types, it tells them to provide this facility. 

Let us now give some examples of the log-normal distribution as shown in the diagram given as 4.1.31. on the next page. In this case, we can compare the parameters given and realize that log-normal distributions can look quite similar or quite different, depending upon the values of the parameters involved. 

Two types of decay are normally encountered. We have already mentioned exponential decay. The other is a logarithmic decay. It is essential to realize that both types of decay arise from a Gaussian array of emitters. That is, the energy states of the excited centers and the energy spectrum of the emission band are the consequence of a random process of phonon perturbations of the excited state of the activator center. Hence a random distribution of excited states results. The distribution is Gaussian and the decay times of this Gaussian array of potential emitters can be described via the binomial derivation, as shown In 5.5.15. on the next page ... 

Two classes of probabilistic approach are possible. One class is the direct probability density functional (pdf) approach, often generalising the multivariate Gaussian (normal) distribution. The other class consists of assiunp>-tions and rules that define a stochastic process. In this second class of method it is not usually possible to state an explicit pdf for the interpolants the process must be studied via its sample realisations and their properties. The derivation of standard geostatistical results often appears to be rule based but, as shown in the next few pages, can be derived from an explicit pdf. More research using explicit pdfs could lead to new results and insights into the methods of spatial statistics. 

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