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Cumulative density function

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Cumulative density function is a self-contradictory phrase resulting from confusion between:

The two words cumulative and density contradict each other. The value of a density function in an interval about a point depends only on probabities of sets in arbitrarily small neighborhoods of that point, so it is not cumulative.