The two-piece normal, binormal, or double Gaussian distribution: its origin and rediscoveries

DOI10.1214/13-STS417zbMath1332.60009arXiv1405.4995MaRDI QIDQ254391

Kenneth F. Wallis

Publication date: 8 March 2016

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4995

zbMATH Keywords

Francis GaltonFrancis Ysidro EdgeworthGottlob Friedrich LippsGustav Theodor FechnerKarl PearsonOscar Sheynin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of probability theory (60-03)

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