7. Mistakes to avoid
7.1 Don't believe that all phenomena are necessarily Gaussian!
The normal distribution is often used as a good and useful approximation, but it should not be assumed that all random phenomena can be modeled by such a distribution. Also, the mean and standard deviation are only summaries of a random phenomenon, and do not in themselves characterize the phenomenon. The association "mean standard deviation In fact, "normal distribution" is misleading. For example, a uniform distribution ...
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