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Gaussian distribution
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Gauss·i·an distribution  (gous-n)
[After Karl Friedrich Gauss.]

Gaussian distribution
n
(Mathematics & Measurements / Statistics) another name for normal distribution
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Noun1.Gaussian distribution - a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance
distribution, statistical distribution - (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters


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The software quickly calculates: (a) the mean value and the standard deviation of all the measurement values; (b) the Log-Normal distribution; (c) the Gaussian distribution; (d) the deviations from the Log-Normal and Gaussian distributions in terms of the Kolmogoroff-Smirnov and Chi-square tests; (e) skewness; and (f) excess of the measured distribution.
In addition, we assume that both the spatial and the unstructured variability have Gaussian distributions, which are independent in the latter case.
 
 
 
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