Comments on: Why are Gaussian Distributions Great? http://artent.net/2012/09/27/why-are-gaussian-distributions-great/ We're blogging machines! Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:08:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Arthur http://artent.net/2012/09/27/why-are-gaussian-distributions-great/#comment-186 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:07:33 +0000 http://162.243.213.31/?p=848#comment-186 Nice survey, except perhaps for the last one… Gauss–Markov theorem is derived without any assumption of normality of residuals, so it is odd to have that here. No ?

]]> By: hundalhh http://artent.net/2012/09/27/why-are-gaussian-distributions-great/#comment-179 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:46:28 +0000 http://162.243.213.31/?p=848#comment-179 Hi antianticamper, I am very aware of Mr. Taleb‘s opinion. I think his book “The Black Swan” is wonderful.

Thanks for the feedback!

]]> By: antianticamper http://artent.net/2012/09/27/why-are-gaussian-distributions-great/#comment-178 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:37:43 +0000 http://162.243.213.31/?p=848#comment-178 Nassim Taleb would disagree, though he is interested in applications, not mathematics per se. Here is one place to start:

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/GIF.pdf

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