Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lognormal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English

Syllables: log-nor-mal
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describing a logarithmic function that has a normal distribution.

noun

A logarithmic function that has a normal distribution.

Example Sentences

"The mgf of the low and high amplitude regions of a single lognormal variable and the derivatives is examined and attention is drawn to the effect of variance. The problem of inversion of the mgf/chf of a sum of lognormals to obtain the CDF/pdf is considered with special reference to methods related to Post Widder technique, Gaussian quadrature and the Fourier series method."

Etymology

From log + normal.

Inflected Forms

lognormals (plural)

Derived Forms

lognormally

Questions

What does lognormal mean?: Describing a logarithmic function that has a normal distribution.
Where does lognormal come from?: From log + normal.

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