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  2. Gaussian function - Wikipedia

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    Gaussian functions are used to define some types of artificial neural networks. In fluorescence microscopy a 2D Gaussian function is used to approximate the Airy disk, describing the intensity distribution produced by a point source.

  3. Normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    The Gaussian distribution belongs to the family of stable distributions which are the attractors of sums of independent, identically distributed distributions whether or not the mean or variance is finite. Except for the Gaussian which is a limiting case, all stable distributions have heavy tails and infinite variance.

  4. Gaussian process - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory and statistics, a Gaussian process is a stochastic process (a collection of random variables indexed by time or space), such that every finite collection of those random variables has a multivariate normal distribution. The distribution of a Gaussian process is the joint distribution of all those (infinitely many) random ...

  5. List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss - Wikipedia

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    The Gaussian function, the function used in the normal distribution, but also used elsewhere The exponentially modified Gaussian distribution or function, used for description of peak shape in many techniques

  6. Multivariate normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory and statistics, the multivariate normal distribution, multivariate Gaussian distribution, or joint normal distribution is a generalization of the one-dimensional normal distribution to higher dimensions.

  7. Normalizing constant - Wikipedia

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    This is the probability mass function of the Poisson distribution with expected value λ. Note that if the probability density function is a function of various parameters, so too will be its normalizing constant. The parametrised normalizing constant for the Boltzmann distribution plays a central role in statistical mechanics.

  8. Random coil - Wikipedia

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    In polymer chemistry, a random coil is a conformation of polymers where the monomer subunits are oriented randomly while still being bonded to adjacent units. It is not one specific shape, but a statistical distribution of shapes for all the chains in a population of macromolecules.

  9. Mulliken population analysis - Wikipedia

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    Mulliken charges arise from the Mulliken population analysis [1] [2] and provide a means of estimating partial atomic charges from calculations carried out by the methods of computational chemistry, particularly those based on the linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method, and are routinely used as variables in linear regression (QSAR [3]) procedures. [4]