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A Gaussian distribution is the "official" term for the Normal distribution. This is a probability density function, of the exponential family, defined by the two parameters, its mean and variance.
A population is said to be normally distributed if the values that a variable of interest can take have a normal or Gaussian distribution within that population.
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