Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss, or to his discoveries.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to Gauss{2}.
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- adjective Alternative capitalization of
Gaussian
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to Karl Gauss or his mathematical theories of magnetics or electricity or astronomy or probability
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Examples
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There are some different flavors of random, such as gaussian or normally distributed, binomially distributed, Poisson distributed and the like.
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'gaussian' blur and set the 'gaussian radius' to its max which is 15.
KDE-Look.org Content 2010
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'gaussian' blur and set the 'gaussian radius' to its max which is 15.
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If, among a population chosen at random, a degree of non-gaussian (i.e. non-bell-curve) nature is found in the distribution of IQ, it is evidence that you are dealing with not one race, but two or more.
What a Bunch of Apes! « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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With the grade inflation documented at any of the bond rating agencies, we might as well plot gaussian noise.
Matthew Yglesias » Charts and Graphs That Will Finally Make It Clear 2010
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The result will be a new gaussian income density curve, broader and flatter, but just as efficient.
Atlas Left a Big Tip, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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There is a countervailing trend to smear the left side of the density curve to the left, re-establishing a gaussian distribution.
Atlas Left a Big Tip, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I believe that I was sufficiently clear in my last post on why heredity causes a gaussian distribution in the expression of complex heritable characters.
What a Bunch of Apes! « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Options markets have a volatility 'smile': the implied volatilities of the extremum strike prices are much higher than implied by gaussian distributions.
Non-normal Distributions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The self-reported height was skewed somewhere between one and two inches taller, but most dramatic was the 5'11 bin, which was about 25% smaller than what even the skewed gaussian would suggest.
strange and unusual 2010
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