Mean absolute gap between two independent normals
Question
Let and be independent normal variables, where is standard normal and has mean and variance . The expected absolute difference can be written as with and rational. Find .
Short answer
. The difference is normal with mean and variance . For , , so the answer is , giving , and .
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