Rectified Gaussian distribution

In probability theory, the rectified Gaussian distribution is a modification of the Gaussian distribution when its negative elements are reset to 0 (analogous to an electronic rectifier). It is essentially a mixture of a discrete distribution (constant 0) and a continuous distribution (a truncated Gaussian distribution with interval ( 0 , ∞ ) {\displaystyle (0,\infty )} ) as a result of censoring.