Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

The normal distribution (also known as the Gaussian distribution) is arguably the most important distribution in Statistics. It is often used to represent continuous random variables occurring in ...

Everyone agrees the normal distribution isn't a great statistical model for stock market returns, but no generally accepted alternative has emerged. A bottom-up simulation points to the Laplace ...