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
- 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.
- Mention any native language support for the generation of normal distributed random numbers.
- Reference
- You may refer to code in Statistics/Basic if available.