normal distribution

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   a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance

   SynonymsGaussian distribution

   Broaderdistribution

   statistics

Questions about normal distribution

What does normal distribution mean?

normal distribution means "a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance".

What is another word for normal distribution?

Close synonyms include Gaussian distribution. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is normal distribution a common word?

normal distribution is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.