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Gaussian Distribution

This is another name of Normal distribution. Normal distribution was developed by Abraham de Moivre in 1733. However, it was CF Gauss who used Normal distribution in astronomy in 1809, making the distribution well known to the others. Thus, Normal distribution is also known as Gaussian distribution

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