Mark Chu-Carroll has a good short discussion of the statistical concept of a "normal distribution" up.
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Here is a list of Basic Concept posts in Mathematics.
Recently Added: Fractals by Karmen at Chaotic Utopia; Innumeracy by Mark Chu-Carroll at Good Math, Bad Math
Statistics
Normal Distribution by Mark Chu-Carroll at Good Math, Bad Math
Mean, Median and Mode by Mark Chu-Carroll at Good Math,…
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This is a list of the Basic Concepts posts being put up by Science Bloggers and others. It will be updated and put to the…
Here is a list of Basic Concept posts in Computer Science and Logic.
Recently Added: "Binary Search" by Mark Chu-Carroll at Good Math, Bad Math
"Logic" by Mark Chu-Carroll at Good Math, Bad Math
"Modal Logic" by Mark Chu-Carroll at Good Math, Bad Math
"Syntax and Semantics" by Mark Chu-Carroll…
A couple more Basic Concepts posts have been put up. Chaz Orzel at Uncertain Principles defines "Force" in physics. And PZ Myers at Pharyngula defines "Gene". However, PZ does this as a molecular biologist would, and ignores the phenotypic effects of genes, and some complications such as…
I've been desparately trying to think of a bad pun on Gaussian, but have failed. :-(
Anyway, I think the basic concepts idea is great, so I hope it keeps going long enough for you to work out how to write on e on species.
Bob
Bob:
My Physics professor wife and I worked half a year for a couple of sleazy Hollywood producers on a profitable CD-ROM edutainment project. They never paid us, and we had to sue right up through my unanimous California Supreme Court victory against them. Still never collected a penny. The point is, they kept referring to what we were doing in digital post-production as what they prounounced as "gauze-ian" as if we were filming with gauzy cloth over a lens. Idiots!