Eli5: how did statisticians conceptualise new distributions ( normal , t etc) and also give a mathematical formula for the same?

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Eli5: how did statisticians conceptualise new distributions ( normal , t etc) and also give a mathematical formula for the same?

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They conceptualized them? They are concepts, it’s how they are made.

When they saw how they were distributed, they made a formula that would model it with the information given.

Then they people would use it and tell them if it worked well or not

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