“I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the ‘Law of Frequency of Error’,” the British polymath Francis Galton wrote in 1889.

CreatureCast - Central Limit Theorem from Casey Dunn on Vimeo. The normal distribution, a bell-shaped statistical curve with a concentration about the mean, is a common phenomenon when looking at ...

The result highlights a fundamental tension: Either the rules of quantum mechanics don’t always apply, or at least one basic assumption about reality must be wrong. The founders of quantum mechanics ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Let X1, X2, ⋯, Xn be a sequence of independent random variables (r.v.'s) with zero mean and finite standard deviation σi, 1 ≤ i ≤ n. According ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The rate of convergence in the central limit theorem for functions of independent random variables is studied in a unifying approach. The ...