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Author rhettinger
Recipients rhettinger, steven.daprano
Date 2019-03-17.08:15:39
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Give statistics.NormalDist()a method for computing the inverse cumulative distribution function.  Model it after the NORM.INV function in MS Excel.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/norm-inv-function-54b30935-fee7-493c-bedb-2278a9db7e13

Use the high accuracy approximation found here:  http://csg.sph.umich.edu/abecasis/gas_power_calculator/algorithm-as-241-the-percentage-points-of-the-normal-distribution.pdf
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