Why are Normal Distributions Normal?
It is usually supposed that the central limit theorem explains why various quantities we find in nature are approximately normally distributed—people's heights, examination grades, snowflake sizes, and so on. This sort of explanation is found in many textbooks across the sciences, particularly in bi...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 621 - 650 |
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University of Chicago Press
Sep2014
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