Log-normal distribution
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In probability theory, a log-normal distribution is a continuous probability distribution of a random variable whose logarithm is normally distributed. Thus, if the random variable X is log-normally d
Overview of parameterizations of the log-normal distributions.
Fitted cumulative log-normal distribution to annually maximum 1-day rainfalls, see distribution fitting
Francis Galton
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Sir Francis Galton was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of behavioural genetics.
Log-normal distribution
…of financial instruments, and other metrics). The distribution is occasionally referred to as the Galton distribution or Galton's distribution, after Francis Galton. The log-normal distribution has also been associated with other names, such as McAlister, Gibrat and Cobb–Douglas. A log-normal process is the statistical…
Galton in the 1850s or 1860s
Portrait of Galton by Octavius Oakley, 1840
Portrait by Charles Wellington Furse, 1903
Sir Francis Galton, 1890s