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Re: st: Why many things have Normal distribution
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David Hoaglin <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Why many things have Normal distribution
Date
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:25:59 -0400
Yuval,
What empirical evidence do you have for the statement that "for very
large samples - if the distribution is not approximately normal -
there is something wrong with the data"?
In practice, the opposite is the rule: As the sample size becomes
larger, the departure of the distribution from a normal distribution
becomes more evident.
David Hoaglin
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