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what is gaussian function?what are it's field of applicaton?how this function is derived,i mean what are the logical reason(approach) behind forming such function?
What is the Gaussian function and why is it defined that way?
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One way to motivate the gaussian distribution is to consider an outcome Y that is the result of summing many small independent contributions to the total outcome.
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