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Last Checked Oct. 24, 2021

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Tue Oct 12 22:07:49 +0000 2021

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@jeff070 @Decafquest Opportunistic — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 12, 2021

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PROBABILITY TUTORIAL: Explains why the Lognormal can mimic a Gamma distribution when the variance is low and the tails are thin. In Medicine, where thin tails, the Gamma is better except when multivariate. https://t.co/jaK2XRq5uQ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 12, 2021

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@otrasenda_AC Let me think... For a Gaussian, the Fourier is a Gaussian, so thin tails -> thin tails. THe rest, don't know yet. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 13, 2021

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