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Name: History of Normal Distribution
ID: m11164
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module introduces the history of the normal curve.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: binomial distribution, history, Moivre, normal curve, normal distribution
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: David Lane (lane@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: David Lane (lane@rice.edu)
Maintainers: David Lane (lane@rice.edu), Elizabeth Gregory (elizabeth.gregory@gmail.com)
Latest version: 2.5 (history)
First publication date: May 14, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5
Last revision to module: Jun 1, 2007 11:59 am GMT-5
Module XML: m11164_2.5.cnxml

Version History

Version: 2.5 Jun 1, 2007 11:59 am GMT-5 by David Lane
Changes: 
 corrected typo
Version: 2.4 Jul 11, 2003 2:37 pm GMT-5 by Liqun Wang
Changes: 
change mid to m11164, change m:fn to type='fn'
Version: 2.3 Jun 6, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
Changes: 
Fixed a few cnxn's.
Version: 2.2 Jun 4, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
Changes: 
added links
Version: 2.1 Jun 4, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
Changes: 
coverted to 0.5
Version: 2.0 May 14, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5 by Elizabeth Gregory
Changes: 
Pretty much finished, except for one problem: the figure named "binomialfig" looks very bad as a normal, unscaled .png file, so I left it as a .gif until we could figure it out ^_^

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