Normal distribution describes a particular way statistics deviate from the mean, or center point, of the data, where most results vary little from the mean, and extremes are rare.

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (2008-), Vol. 75, No. 1 (May 2013), pp. 1-15 (15 pages) Folded normal distribution arises when we try to find out the distribution of absolute ...

We study the asymptotic covariance function of the sample mean and quantile, and derive a new and surprising characterization of the normal distribution: the asymptotic covariance between the sample ...