Statistics/Normal distribution

Statistics/Normal distribution is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

Normal (or Gaussian) distribution is a freqently used distribution in statistics. While most programming languages provide a uniformly distributed random number generator, one can derive normally distributed random numbers from a uniform generator.

The task

1. Take a uniform random number generator and create a large (you decide how large) set of numbers that follow a normal (Gaussian) distribution. Calculate the dataset's mean and stddev, and show the histogram here.
2. Mention any native language support for the generation of normally distributed random numbers.

Reference

• You may refer to code in Statistics/Basic if available.