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. 2019 Feb 1;48(1):1-6.
doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy184.

Precision public health-the Emperor's new clothes

David Taylor-Robinson  1 , Frank Kee  2
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Precision public health-the Emperor's new clothes

David Taylor-Robinson et al. Int J Epidemiol. .
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Galton's Quincunx. Sir Francis Galton invented the Quincunx, which demonstrates how a normal-distribution can be generated from a random process. Spherical beads or marbles are funnelled into the top where they collide with an array of pins, bouncing either left or right after each collision, finally collected into wells at the bottom. With the pins organised as per the figure, the height of the balls in each well generates a normal distribution. About 100 years later physicists were able to build two models of the Quincunx, one designed to generate the normal distribution and the other to generate the log normal distribution, by changing the arrangement of the pins. A simulation of the Quincunx is available here: http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/quincunx.html. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galton_Box.svg.
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