Integral Equation Unknown Limits

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What is the name of an equation, where the unknown is one of the limits of integration? Is there a theory that studies such equations, standard methods of solution?

The simplest example is the equation defining a median in statistics $\int_{-\infty}^x f(y)dy = 0.5 $, where $x$ is the unknown.

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me again. I was very tired when I asked the question, the answer is trivial

$ \int_a^b f(x)dx = \Phi(b) - \Phi(a) $, where $\Phi(x) = \int f(x) dx $ is the corresponding definite integral.

So the problem boils down to being able to compute a definite integral, and then being able so solve the resulting ordinary equation.