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  • adjective mathematics Of or pertaining to Carl Friedrich Gauss.
  • adjective statistics Normal.

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  • Maybe reviewer found something wrong with term Gaussian statistics , and they corrected it to Gaussian residuals not much better, autocorrelation is the key issue actually..

    More on MBH Confidence Intervals « Climate Audit 2006

  • For five years, Li's formula, known as a Gaussian copula function , looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before.

    Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street By Felix Salmon 2009

  • Mr. Anderson wanted to put something called the Gaussian copula function on his cover, which is "the secret formula that destroyed Wall Street."

    The Understated, More Desperate National Magazine Awards 2009

  • Mr. Anderson wanted to put something called the Gaussian copula function on his cover, which is "the secret formula that destroyed Wall Street."

    The Understated, More Desperate National Magazine Awards 2009

  • For five years, Li's formula, known as a Gaussian copula function , looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before.

    Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street Felix Salmon 2009

  • There is a geospatial procedure called Gaussian unconditional Gaussian simulation Wackernagel, 2003 which ought to be possible to extend to address the problem you describe.

    Bürger Review « Climate Audit 2007

  • This curve is also called the Gaussian curve, after the nineteenth-century German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss.

    normal distribution curve 2002

  • Moreover, he found a mathematical quantity, now called the Gaussian curvature of a surface, that is of major importance.

    RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

  • But of course the algorithms (known as Gaussian copula functions) that the banks used to assume that they could create risk-free bonds from sub-prime loans has now been published

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Darrel Ince 2010

  • But of course the algorithms (known as Gaussian copula functions) that the banks used to assume that they could create risk-free bonds from sub-prime loans has now been published

    The Guardian World News 2010

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