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Comment by rjdj377dhabsn

5 days ago

Yes, and if I remember correctly, you get the Gaussian because it's the minimum entropy (least additional assumptions about the shape) continuous distribution given a certain variance.

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porridgeraisin  4 days ago

And given a mean.

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