The Central Limit Theorem occasionally results in extremely slow convergence to the Normal distribution, making the corresponding approximation virtually useless (a typical example being the sample ...

Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures will be opening its Toronto Film Festival acquisition Normal on April 17, 2026 in 2,000 theaters, the distributor’s widest release in its 24-year history. Normal, which we ...

The term “abnormal” when it comes to mental health and psychopathology is often taken for granted. You might have taken, or at least heard of, college courses in “abnormal psychology.” What, then, is ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 49, No. 4, Memorial issue for Charles Stein (August 2021), pp. 1850-1863 (14 pages) This paper is a short exposition of Stein’s method of normal approximation from my ...

In 2019, The Wall Street Journal’s longtime drama critic performed the dazzling, rarely seen critical 180 on “Next to Normal,” the 2008 Brian Yorkey–Tom Kitt musical that had won a Pulitzer Prize, ...

The word "normal" permeates many aspects of our lives—from medicine to fashion, intelligence testing to behavior. However, beneath its comforting surface lies a more complex and potentially limiting ...

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If we’re exposed to something repeatedly, it seems we can become desensitized to almost anything. An event that once evoked shock can come to seem routine; what once prompted alarm can eventually ...

dxxx(x,) returns the density or the value on the y-axis of a probability distribution for a discrete value of x pxxx(q,) returns the cumulative density function (CDF) or the area under the curve to ...