monthly average highs and lows for Tulsa, OK. Both distributions look approximately normal to me. Ditto for Zagreb and Split in Croatia.
Edward C. Dreyer
Emeritus, The University of Tulsa
go to http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/climatology/
At 03:36 PM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
My class is starting normal distributions today, and I asked them to
name some distributions and say whether they were normal.
One student suggested seasons, such as high temperatures. Those are
more nearly cyclical, but then I got to wondering if there are any
seasonal or climate phenomena that are normally distributed. I can't
think of any, but I wonder if I'm overlooking an obvious example.
Any suggestions?
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