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Obtaining densest x% of a Bivariate Distribution

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• Subject: [mg127463] Obtaining densest x% of a Bivariate Distribution
• From: Scott Fortmann-Roe <scottfr at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:36:25 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,

If I have a bivariate distribution such as,

  BinomialDistribution[50, .5]

How do I obtain the polygon that encloses that densest x% of the
distribution. For example, what Mathematica functions would I use to
get the most compact polygon (which may or may not be a continuous
region and may or may not contain holes) that encloses 95% of the mass
of a bivariate normal distribution or a bivariate mixture function.

Thank you,
Scott

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