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Acquaintance with the normal distribution, tables of the normal distribution. Probabilistic paper. Sample means distribution and Monte Carlo simulation. Two theorems of de Moivre-Laplace. When does normal approximation fit binomial distribution data? [Heritage of F.Gauss and Marquis de Laplace]
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Laudański, L.M. (2013). Normal Distribution Binomial Heritage. In: Between Certainty and Uncertainty. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25697-4_8
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