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gaussian
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gaus·si·an (gous-n)
adj.
Relating to or described by German mathematician and astronomer Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855).


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Early in the book, the authors, after showing what a fat tail looks like on a graph compared to a normal Gaussian distribution or bell shaped curve made a statement which caught my attention and made reference to Taleb's excellent work.
According to the "3 [sigma] principle" in Gaussian distribution, the probability of a Gaussian variable lying in the range ([mu] - 3[sigma], [mu] + 3[sigma]) is 99.
One method is by modeling each pixel as unimodal Gaussian distribution [8].
 
 
 
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