The Log-normal Distribution: Galton and McAlister’s 1879 Law of the Geometric Mean, and Why the Long-Term Investor Must Compound Rather Than Average

A right-skewed log-normal density curve showing the mode below the median below the mean, with a long right tail, on a NorthPath Letter cover

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