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Comment by carlob

Maybe it's just the short video and the FAQ, but I found it particularly difficult to find information about the distributions involved and how to choose that.

I imagine there a bunch of cases where the defaults would not work like you're trying to do error propagation (all normal distributions) or you're trying to compute interval arithmetic.

Is it the case that if you input a range which span multiple orders of magnitude then you get lognormal rather than normal?

I might not be exactly the target audience, but I would appreciate a more in-depth of the math and heuristics involved

EDIT: I found this on their blog

https://medium.com/guesstimate-blog/lognormal-normal-833bf41...

parent carlob 7 years ago

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