# How to fit a normal distribution to some points in the tail

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**Created:** [February 27, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fit-a-normal-distribution-to-some-points-in-the-tail/35233 "2020-02-27T14:19:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fit-a-normal-distribution-to-some-points-in-the-tail/35233/7 "2020-02-27T17:38:46Z")

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FWIW, the [likelihood I wrote](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-fit-a-normal-approximation-to-data-n-julia/35045/5) for what I imagine is the same problem should work for the truncated data.

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