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Most applications of statistics to science and engineering are based on the assumption that the corresponding random variables are normally distributed, i.e., distributed according to Gaussian law in which the probability density function ρ(x) exponentially decreases with x: ρ(x)∼exp (−k⋅x2). Normal distributions indeed frequently occur in practice. However, there are also many practical situations,...