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Re:Beyond the Bell Curve, a New Universal Law (2014) by helmett on Friday November 27, 2015 @05:29PM (#10639129)
As someone who has studied statistics in college, there is little original or novel about these finding. Any distribution can be reversed-engineered to find its characteristic function.
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Re:Beyond the Bell Curve, a New Universal Law (2014) by gaze on Friday November 27, 2015 @05:44PM (#10639179)
Yeah but certain characteristic functions popping up in seemingly unrelated places is a BIG deal.
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