Re:The Central Limit Theorem and Its Misuse
by srean on Monday January 13, 2020 @11:30AM
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> That a rather assertive statement. I dare say most distributions are (due to CLT) Gaussian.
I have been doing stats/ML/data-science for more than a decade. The above has rarely been true ever in the datasets that I have looked at. Unless of course the raw data has been transformed in ways to make them look Gaussian. Gaussian is the exception, not the rule.
I have been doing stats/ML/data-science for more than a decade. The above has rarely been true ever in the datasets that I have looked at. Unless of course the raw data has been transformed in ways to make them look Gaussian. Gaussian is the exception, not the rule.