normal random variable is a continuous random variable that allows you to manually specify the expectation and variance constituents \mu the mean \sigma the variance requirements \begin{equation} X \sim \mathcal{N}(\mu, \sigma^{2}) \end{equation} PDF:

\begin{equation} f(x) = \frac{1}{\sigma \sqrt{2 \pi}} e^{-\frac{(x-\mu)^{2}}{2 \sigma^{2}}} \end{equation}

additional information normal maximizes entropy no other random variable uses as little parameters to convey as much information

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