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ARTICLES RELATED TO Normal distribution - Probability density function | | | |  Normal distribution - Probability density function: Encyclopedia II - Normal distribution - OccurrenceApproximately normal distributions occur in many situations, as a result of the central limit theorem. When there is reason to suspect the presence of a large number of small effects acting additively and independently, it is reasonable to assume that observations will be normal. There are statistical methods to empirically test that assumption, for example the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.
Effects can also act as multiplicative (rather than additive) modifications. In that case, the assumption of normality is not just ...
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| | | | Normal distribution - Probability density function: Encyclopedia II - Normal distribution - Specification of the normal distribution There are various ways to specify a random variable. The most visual is the probability density function (plot at the top), which represents how likely each value of the random variable is. The cumulative distribution function is a conceptually cleaner way to specify the same information, but to the untrained eye its plot is much less informative (see below). Equivalent ways to specify the normal distribution are: the moments, the cumulants, the characteristic function, the moment-generating function, and the cumulant-generating function. Some of these are very useful for the ...
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| | | | Normal distribution - Probability density function: Encyclopedia II - Normal distribution - Estimation of parameters
Normal distribution - Maximum likelihood estimation of parameters.
Suppose
are independent and identically distributed, and are normally distributed with expectation μ and variance σ2. In the language of statisticians, the observed values of these random variables make up a "sample from a normally distributed population." It is desired to estimate the "population mean" μ and the "population standard deviation" σ, based on observed values of this sample. The joint probability de ...
See also:Normal distribution, Normal distribution - Overview, Normal distribution - History, Normal distribution - Specification of the normal distribution, Normal distribution - Probability density function, Normal distribution - Cumulative distribution function, Normal distribution - Generating functions, Normal distribution - Properties, Normal distribution - Standardizing normal random variables, Normal distribution - Moments, Normal distribution - Generating normal random variables, Normal distribution - The central limit theorem, Normal distribution - Infinite divisibility, Normal distribution - Stability, Normal distribution - Standard deviation, Normal distribution - Normality tests, Normal distribution - Related distributions, Normal distribution - Estimation of parameters, Normal distribution - Maximum likelihood estimation of parameters, Normal distribution - Unbiased estimation of parameters, Normal distribution - Occurrence, Normal distribution - Photon counting, Normal distribution - Measurement errors, Normal distribution - Physical characteristics of biological specimens, Normal distribution - Financial variables, Normal distribution - Lifetime, Normal distribution - Test scores Read more here: » Normal distribution: Encyclopedia II - Normal distribution - Estimation of parameters |
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| | | | Normal distribution - Probability density function: Encyclopedia II - Normal distribution - Properties Some of the properties of the normal distribution:
If and a and b are real numbers, then (see expected value and variance).
If and are independent normal random variables, then:
Their sum is normally distributed with (proof).
Their difference is normally distributed with .
Both U and V are independent of each other.
If and a ...
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| | | | Normal distribution - Probability density function: Encyclopedia II - Normal distribution - Specification of the normal distribution There are various ways to specify a random variable. The most visual is the probability density function (plot at the top), which represents how likely each value of the random variable is. The cumulative density function is a conceptually cleaner way to specify the same information, but to the untrained eye its plot is much less informative (see below). Equivalent ways to specify the normal distribution are: the moments, the cumulants, the characteristic function, the moment-generating function, and the cumulant-generating function. Some of these are very useful for the ...
See also:Normal distribution, Normal distribution - Overview, Normal distribution - History, Normal distribution - Specification of the normal distribution, Normal distribution - Probability density function, Normal distribution - Cumulative distribution function, Normal distribution - Generating functions, Normal distribution - Properties, Normal distribution - Standardizing normal random variables, Normal distribution - Moments, Normal distribution - Generating normal random variables, Normal distribution - The central limit theorem, Normal distribution - Infinite divisibility, Normal distribution - Stability, Normal distribution - Standard deviation, Normal distribution - Normality tests, Normal distribution - Related distributions, Normal distribution - Estimation of parameters, Normal distribution - Maximum likelihood estimation of parameters, Normal distribution - Unbiased estimation of parameters, Normal distribution - Occurrence, Normal distribution - Photon counting, Normal distribution - Measurement errors, Normal distribution - Physical characteristics of biological specimens, Normal distribution - Financial variables, Normal distribution - Lifetime, Normal distribution - Test scores Read more here: » Normal distribution: Encyclopedia II - Normal distribution - Specification of the normal distribution |
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| | | | Normal distribution - Probability density function: Encyclopedia II - Normal distribution - History The normal distribution was first introduced by de Moivre in an article in 1733 (reprinted in the second edition of his The Doctrine of Chances, 1738) in the context of approximating certain binomial distributions for large n. His result was extended by Laplace in his book Analytical Theory of Probabilities (1812), and is now called the theorem of de Moivre-Laplace.
Laplace used the normal distribution in the analysis of errors of experiments. The important method of least squares was introduced by Legendre in 1805. Gauss, who claimed to have used the method since 1794, justified it rigorously in 1809 b ...
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