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Normal Distribution
Message posted by Fee (via 64.12.104.56) on July 7, 2001 at 11:44 PM (ET)
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Re: Normal Distribution
Message posted by YapKS (via 203.106.188.119) on July 11, 2001 at 9:38 AM (ET)
What are the diff. among Normal, Gaussian and Student-t curves?
Re: Normal Distribution
Message posted by JG (via 128.8.22.96) on July 11, 2001 at 5:56 PM (ET)
normal same as gaussian and becomes student when SD not known
Re: Normal Distribution
Message posted by Paul (via 208.238.117.10) on July 13, 2001 at 5:21 PM (ET)
The t distribution is wider and flatter than the z distribution because we only have an estimate of the standard deviation. Less certainty, thus a wider, flatter distribution.
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