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Archive for September 27, 2019

Day 39: The Normal Approximation (De Moivre-Laplace)

Binomial_distribution plot

The binomial distribution, don’t worry we’ll get into it.

Well we haven’t covered the binomial distribution, but it should be vaguely familiar if you’ve been keeping up, specifically if you’ve already read about the gaussian pdf. Today we are going to talk about what the binomial distribution is and how it relates to the normal distribution. So let’s get into it and see how it relates to some of the topics we’ve been covering!*

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