Data Isn’t Usually Normal

Use other data science techniques to unlock more accurate insights

Despite what you learned in statistics class, most data isn’t normally distributed. Think about commonly cited examples of normally distributed phenomena like height or college entrance exam scores. If you could gather the individual heights of all people on Earth and plot them on a histogram, the left-hand tail would be heavier than the right; infants and children are shorter than adults, …

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