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Creating a bimodal Normal distributed function

August 21, 20241 min read

Combine two normal distributed functions into one.

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I had this small project, where a client wanted a small tool to 'predict' the amount of hours that the project will need over the following X weeks.

There are few assumptions here:

  • The project takes X total hours
  • The project takes up a lot of hours in the beginning. There is also a bump in hours at the end of the project in the last 4 weeks.

The aim here is to give an estimation about the hours per week that are needed for the project.

I first tried some weird stuff with a cubic function, but I quickly realized this was the wrong way to go.

Multi-modal distributions are a combination of multiple distributions.