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12.5 Boundary conditions

Many distributions are defined with support or constraints on parameters forming an open interval. For example, the normal density function accepts a scale parameter \(\sigma > 0\). If \(\sigma = 0\), the probability function will throw an exception.

This is true even for (complementary) cumulative distribution functions, which will throw exceptions when given input that is out of the support.