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Also Known As	Gaussian distribution

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Normal distribution

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normal approximation to the binomial distribution

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statistics: The normal distribution

Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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