Why are Normal Distributions Normal?

DOI10.1093/BJPS/AXS046zbMATH Open1319.62010OpenAlexW2090299879MaRDI QIDQ2944396FDOQ2944396

Authors: Aidan Lyon 

Publication date: 2 September 2015

Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axs046

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05)

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