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| Apr 19, 2018 at 20:41 | comment | added | J.G. | @DanielSank I've removed them. I didn't mean counts aren't physical; I meant they don't fall under either of the categories you said don't differ much. The original question concerned whether statistical errors are Gaussian. Click counts aren't errors. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 20:39 | history | edited | J.G. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2018 at 20:36 | comment | added | DanielSank | I understand that certain algebraic operations preferably produce Gaussian distributions even over a large range of different inputs. I think the other answers indicate this in their references to the central limit theorem, which is of the same spirit as this answer's reference to the e.g. Herschel-Maxwell derivation. This answer's use of quotation marks in referring to the other answers as "Answers" is unwarranted, and serves only to make this post sound unnecessarily confrontational at no benefit to the reader. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 20:33 | comment | added | DanielSank | In what possible sense are click counts not the result of an underlying physical process? | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 20:29 | comment | added | J.G. | @DanielSank Click counts. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 20:08 | comment | added | DanielSank | Could you give an example? | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 19:00 | comment | added | J.G. | @DanielSank Quite. But plenty of variables discussed on this page don't fall under any such category. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 18:40 | comment | added | DanielSank | I'm not so sure that there's a difference between measurement errors and fluctuations in physical quantities. Measurement apparatuses are physical systems, after all. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 17:28 | history | answered | J.G. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |