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Archive for September 28, 2019

Day 40: The Normal Approximation (Poisson)

Poisson vs Gaussian

Poisson’s return!

You have all been really patient with seeing how we tie these last few posts together and frankly I think that we are on track to do that in the next post. Today however we have one more thing to introduce then we can bring it all together, that would be yet another normal (again we usually refer to this as the gaussian) distribution. If you recall I hinted at this a few days ago in the Poisson pdf post.  Let’s look at what this means and why we would want to use this.*

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