# what's lognormal distribution?

what is lognormal distribution?

what's the different between lognormal and normal distribution?

i will really appreciate if anyone can answer it.

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• Sis
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In probability and statistics, the log-normal distribution is the single-tailed probability distribution of any random variable whose logarithm is normally distributed. If X is a random variable with a normal distribution, then Y = exp(X) has a log-normal distribution; likewise, if Y is log-normally distributed, then log(Y) is normally distributed. (The base of the logarithmic function does not matter: if loga(Y) is normally distributed, then so is logb(Y), for any two positive numbers a, b ≠ 1.)

Log-normal is also written log normal or lognormal.

A variable might be modeled as log-normal if it can be thought of as the multiplicative product of many small independent factors. For example the long-term return rate on a stock investment can be considered to be the product of the daily return rates. In wireless communication, the attenuation caused by shadowing or slow fading from random objects is often assumed to be log-normally distributed.

The normal distribution, also called the Gaussian distribution, is an important family of continuous probability distributions, applicable in many fields. Each member of the family may be defined by two parameters, location and scale: the mean ("average", μ) and variance (standard deviation squared) σ2, respectively. The standard normal distribution is the normal distribution with a mean of zero and a variance of one (the red curves in the plots to the right). Carl Friedrich Gauss became associated with this set of distributions when he analyzed astronomical data using them,[1] and defined the equation of its probability density function. It is often called the bell curve because the graph of its probability density resembles a bell.

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