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Log-Normal Distribution

What? Who says our logs aren’t normal? Our logs are as normal as they come. They’re wood, covered in bark, have some insects crawling on them. You know...logs.

Oh wait.

This is a stats things, right?

Sorry, we’re kinda protective of our logs. Anywho, a log-normal distribution is a continuous distribution of data (typically some essentially random variable like stock prices) that produces a Normal distribution when the logarithm of each data point is taken. Log-normal distributions are characterized by having a right skew and by attaining only positive x-values. Log-normal distributions are often used to analyze and predict future stock prices.

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