normal distribution

Summary

normal distribution ranks in the top 0.09% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,961 views/month, #70 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• Carl Friedrich Gauss is named after normal distribution^[2].
• normal distribution is a type of Tweedie distribution^[3].
• normal distribution is a type of Student's t-distribution^[4].
• normal distribution is a type of multivariate normal distribution^[5].
• normal distribution is a type of exponential family^[6].
• normal distribution is a type of skew normal distribution^[7].
• normal distribution is a type of stable distribution^[8].
• normal distribution is a type of contaminated normal distribution^[9].
• normal distribution is a type of univariate probability distribution^[10].
• normal distribution is a type of continuous probability distribution^[11].
• normal distribution's Commons category is recorded as Normal distribution^[12].
• normal distribution's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Normal distribution^[13].
• normal distribution's facet of is recorded as statistics^[14].
• normal distribution's described by source is recorded as ISO 3534-1:2006(en) Statistics — Vocabulary and symbols — Part 1: General statistical terms and terms used in probability^[15].
• normal distribution's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[16].
• normal distribution's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[17].
• normal distribution's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://math.stackexchange.com/tags/normal-distribution^[18].
• normal distribution's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stats.stackexchange.com/tags/normal-distribution^[19].
• normal distribution's has characteristic is recorded as cumulative distribution function of a Normal distribution^[20].
• normal distribution's has characteristic is recorded as bell-shaped curve^[21].
• normal distribution's definition domain is recorded as set of real numbers^[22].
• normal distribution's TeX string is recorded as \mathcal{N}(\mu,\,\sigma^2)^[23].
• normal distribution's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[24].
• normal distribution's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[25].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include Tweedie distribution^[3], Student's t-distribution^[4], multivariate normal distribution^[5], exponential family^[6], skew it^[7], and stable distribution^[8].

Origins

Carl Friedrich Gauss is named after normal distribution^[2].

Influence

Things named for normal distribution include The Bell Curve^[26], a written work^[27], written by Richard Herrnstein^[28].

Why It Matters

normal distribution ranks in the top 0.09% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,961 views/month, #70 of 77,819).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[29] It is known by 121 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[30]

Entities named for it include The Bell Curve^[26], a written work^[27], written by Richard Herrnstein^[28].