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by cmansley 5288 days ago
Just a note. The distribution being created here is the Binomial distribution. It just so happens that because of the central limit theorem, you can approximate it with the Gaussian distribution. For a low number of samples (n<20), this approximation will degrade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution#Normal_ap...