illustrate the parallelism of the cases; the <span class="math inline">\(k=1\)</span> and <span class="math inline">\(k=K\)</span> edge cases can be subsumed into the general definition by setting <span class="math inline">\(c_0 = -\infty\)</span> and <span class="math inline">\(c_K = +\infty\)</span> with <span class="math inline">\(\Phi(-\infty) = 0\)</span> and <span class="math inline">\(\Phi(\infty) = 1\)</span>.</p>
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