You can approximate the binomial and Poisson distributions with the normal, but what about the geometric disribution? Can the normal distribution ever approximate that?

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Section13.2: Expected Value And Variance Of Continuous Random Variables
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You can approximate the binomial
and Poisson distributions with the
normal, but what about the geometric
disribution? Can the normal distribution
ever approximate that?
Transcribed Image Text:You can approximate the binomial and Poisson distributions with the normal, but what about the geometric disribution? Can the normal distribution ever approximate that?
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