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Many statistical methods assume data or a model's residuals are normally distributed. Use this tag for questions about the assumption & testing of normality, or about normality as a *property*. Use [normal-distribution] for questions about the normal distribution per se.
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Is there an explanation for why there are so many natural phenomena that follow normal distr...
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As others have pointed out it's due to the central limit theorem which directly implies that the sum of a large number of independent random variables will follow a normal distribution. I will e …
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