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More on Normal Distributions

Question 1 out of 3.

Who was the 18th century statistician and consultant to gamblers that discovered the normal curve?

  1. de Moivre
  2. Galileo
  3. Adrian
  4. Gauss
Question 2 out of 3.

Why was the normal curve an important development?

  1. It has a relatively simple formula.
  2. Many natural phenomena are at least approximately normally distributed.
  3. Many inferential statistics can only be computed with a normal distribution.
Question 3 out of 3.

Who is responsible for the central limit theorem?

  1. Gauss
  2. Laplace
  3. Newton
  4. Adrian