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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A theoretical frequency distribution for a random variable, characterized by a bell-shaped curve symmetrical about its mean.
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- noun statistics A family of continuous
probability distributions such that theprobability density function is the Gaussian function
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- noun a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance
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