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Does the peak of a Normal Distribution mean anything? [closed]
What does the peak of a Normal distribution show? Let's say if I have a flat peak, does this mean I have a larger variance? What if I have a sharp peak?
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Does the "blue distribution" ...
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$P(\lvert X - \mu\rvert \geq \sigma)$ as a measure of tailedness
I know that one of the standard measures for the "tailedness" of a distribution is kurtosis, i.e. fourth standardized central moment $\frac{\mu_4}{\sigma^4}$. This measure is sort of intuitive to me: ...
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What is the correct way to add and subtract skewness from a distribution?
If I recall correctly, we can add and subtract variance if variables are independent, and have a mean of 0.
I have two distributions that are summed up: (a) one with high variance, low skewness and ...
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Looking for a distribution where: Mean=0, variance is variable, Skew=0 and kurtosis is variable
I am aiming to run simulations in order to estimate the influence of the distribution of $Y$ (independent variable) on a certain binary outcome $X$ (dependent variable). $Y$ must always has a mean of ...
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