Why are Normal Distributions Normal?

DOI10.1093/BJPS/AXS046MaRDI QIDQ2944396zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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