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Re: st: Why many things have Normal distribution
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Yuval Arbel <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Why many things have Normal distribution
Date
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:53:48 -0700
There are some very interesting papers, which reveal cheating via
distributions, which are not normal or odd frequencies. One of these
very interesting papers is Steven's Levitt's paper regarding Sumo
Wrestling - described also in his "freeconomics" book.
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Yuval Arbel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another example is throwing a fair die (or toss a fair coin) and write
> the outcomes.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Yuval Arbel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What about the central limit theorem? I was referring to physical
>> human features - such as height - and the example of Napoleon's army
>> candidates for draft. In an army of millions of soldiers - you would
>> expect a normal distribution of heights. The problem is that those who
>> tried to avoid drafting probably bribed somebody to write false
>> heights, which is shorter than the minimal required height. In this
>> case - you might get a skewed distribution of heights
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:25 PM, David Hoaglin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Yuval Arbel
>> School of Business
>> Carmel Academic Center
>> 4 Shaar Palmer Street,
>> Haifa 33031, Israel
>> e-mail1: [email protected]
>> e-mail2: [email protected]
>> You can access my latest paper on SSRN at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2263398
>> You can access previous papers on SSRN at: http://ssrn.com/author=1313670
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>
>
> --
> Dr. Yuval Arbel
> School of Business
> Carmel Academic Center
> 4 Shaar Palmer Street,
> Haifa 33031, Israel
> e-mail1: [email protected]
> e-mail2: [email protected]
> You can access my latest paper on SSRN at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2263398
> You can access previous papers on SSRN at: http://ssrn.com/author=1313670
--
Dr. Yuval Arbel
School of Business
Carmel Academic Center
4 Shaar Palmer Street,
Haifa 33031, Israel
e-mail1: [email protected]
e-mail2: [email protected]
You can access my latest paper on SSRN at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2263398
You can access previous papers on SSRN at: http://ssrn.com/author=1313670
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