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by SammoJ 4839 days ago
Which attributes would you sample from a normal distribution here? I don't see any numerical attributes where this would make sense. One could add weight, height, age etc. and sample from the relevant geographical/gender distributions?
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An example would be the processing of automatically acquired measurement data. Such data usually shows some kind of distribution (binominal, normal, geometric, etc...) that needs to be taken into account when validating such a tool.