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(Apparent) Non-convergence of uniform data.
Posted:
Nov 3, 2009 11:20 PM
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Hi, everyone:
I am working with a software package that generates
random data of different sizes from both a normal
population and a uniform population. The data
generated is then plotted (histograms.)
What I am curious about is a noticeable difference
between the histograms of the samples from a normal population vs. the histograms of samples from a uniform population:
With the normal population, as the data size grows, the histograms very quickly start looking like the parent distribution, i.e., the histograms do look normally-distributed, even for samples of size n=100.
For the uniform population, though, the histograms do not approach (in a purely visual sense) a uniform distribution, even for samples of sizes 1,000 or 10,000.
Can anyone suggest what is happenning, i.e., why the histograms of the uniform data points do not approach a uniform plot.?
Thanks For any Help.
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