Normal Random Variable

Famous quotes containing the words normal, random and/or variable:

    “Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is deviant, but whether such a thing as deviance exists at all in human relationships if they seem satisfactory to those who share them.”
    —Elizabeth Janeway (b. 1913)

    “poor Felix Randal;
    How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years,
    When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers,
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    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)