The normal distribution (also known as the Gaussian distribution) is arguably the most important distribution in Statistics. It is often used to represent continuous random variables occurring in ...

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Easily computed estimates of the mean and variance of a Normal distribution obtained from samples which are truncated or censored are described. The estimates require only a single auxiliary function ...