Occurrence
The occurrence of normal distribution in practical problems can be loosely classified into three categories:
- Exactly normal distributions;
- Approximately normal laws, for example when such approximation is justified by the central limit theorem; and
- Distributions modeled as normal – the normal distribution being the distribution with maximum entropy for a given mean and variance.
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