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Published inAug 2023
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Huy Hoang Nguyen
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Huy Hoang Nguyen is a Mathematician and a Data Scientist with far-ranging experience, championing advanced mathematics and strategic leadership, and applied machine learning research. He holds a Master's in Data Science and a PhD in Mathematics. His previous work was related to Partial Differential Equations, Functional Analysis and their applications in Fluid Mechanics. He transitioned from academia to the healthcare industry and has performed different Data Science projects from traditional Machine Learning to Deep Learning.
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Paul N Adams
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Paul N Adams

Paul Adams is a Data Scientist with a background primarily in the healthcare industry. Paul applies statistics and machine learning in multiple areas of industry, focusing on projects in process engineering, process improvement, metrics and business rules development, anomaly detection, forecasting, clustering and classification. Paul holds a Master of Science in Data Science from Southern Methodist University.
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Stuart J Miller

Stuart Miller is a Machine Learning Engineer with degrees in Data Science, Electrical Engineering, and Engineering Physics. Stuart has worked at several Fortune 500 companies, including Texas Instruments and StateFarm, where he built software that utilized statistical and machine learning techniques. Stuart is currently an engineer at Toyota Connected helping to build a more modern cockpit experience for drivers using machine learning.
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The normal distribution and central limit theorem

When discussing the normal distribution, we refer to the bell-shaped, standard normal distribution, which is formally synonymous with the Gaussian distribution, named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, an 18th- and 19th-century mathematician and physicist who – among other things – contributed to the concepts of approximation, and, in 1795, invented the method of least squares and the normal distribution, which is commonly used in statistical modeling techniques, such as least squares regression [3]. The standard normal distribution, also referred to as a parametric distribution, is characterized by a symmetrical distribution with a probability of data point dispersion consistent around the mean – that is, the data appears near the mean more frequently than data farther away. Since the location data dispersed within this distribution follows the laws of probability, we can call this a standard normal probability distribution...

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Huy Hoang Nguyen

Huy Hoang Nguyen is a Mathematician and a Data Scientist with far-ranging experience, championing advanced mathematics and strategic leadership, and applied machine learning research. He holds a Master's in Data Science and a PhD in Mathematics. His previous work was related to Partial Differential Equations, Functional Analysis and their applications in Fluid Mechanics. He transitioned from academia to the healthcare industry and has performed different Data Science projects from traditional Machine Learning to Deep Learning.
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Paul N Adams

Paul Adams is a Data Scientist with a background primarily in the healthcare industry. Paul applies statistics and machine learning in multiple areas of industry, focusing on projects in process engineering, process improvement, metrics and business rules development, anomaly detection, forecasting, clustering and classification. Paul holds a Master of Science in Data Science from Southern Methodist University.
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Stuart J Miller

Stuart Miller is a Machine Learning Engineer with degrees in Data Science, Electrical Engineering, and Engineering Physics. Stuart has worked at several Fortune 500 companies, including Texas Instruments and StateFarm, where he built software that utilized statistical and machine learning techniques. Stuart is currently an engineer at Toyota Connected helping to build a more modern cockpit experience for drivers using machine learning.
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