Sentences with phrase «approximate normal distribution»

It maintains an approximate normal distribution that accumulates to an average 1.14 % monthly fair return over 600 months, but with a standard deviation of 4.67 %, which is a high level of short - term volatility.

Not exact matches

(Long - 26 minutes) Presentation on spreadsheet to show that the normal distribution approximates the binomial distribution for a large number of trials.

Each can be approximated reasonably well by a standard normal (Gaussian, bell shaped) distribution in terms of percentages (i.e., they are lognormal).

So, this suggests we can simply use a normal distribution with the given sigma value (0.05) to approximate the uncertainty distribution for each year.

«Nonlinearities often manifest themselves as non-normality in the proxy distribution, despite the target climate quantity being well approximated by a normal distribution.

Most ECS distributions should approximate that of a ratio of two normal distributions with the denominator distribution having greater relative variance; they should not be lognormal.

At some point above and below the mean, temperatures must cease to approximate to the normal distribution.

To illustrate my point, consider a series of throws of two six sided dice, which will approximate to a normal distribution.

Motl makes the assumption that because temperature distributions approximate to a normal distribution between -2 and 2 sigma, therefore they must continue that approximation out beyond 3 sigma.

It is commonly assumed that this variability can be approximated as a normal (Gaussian) distribution, the so - called bell curve.