E534 Fall2020 Physics Part III 5. Gaussian Distributions
Channel: Digital Science Center Courses
Date: 2014-01-30

E534 2019 Big Data Applications and Analytics Discovery of Higgs Boson: Big Data Higgs Unit 10: Looking for Higgs Particles Part III: Random Variables, Physics, and Normal Distributions
Overview: Geoffrey introduces random variables and some simple principles of statistics and explains why they are relevant to Physics counting experiments. The unit introduces Gaussian (normal) distributions and explains why they seen so often in natural phenomena. Several Python illustrations are given. Java is currently not available in this unit.

10.5 - Gaussian Distributions
Lesson Summary: We introduce the Gaussian distribution and give Python examples of the fluctuations in counting Gaussian distributions.