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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=probability_theory">probability theory</a>, a <b>normalizing constant</b> or <b>normalizing factor</b> is used to reduce any nonnegative function whose integral is finite to a <a href="page.php?w=probability_density_function">probability density function</a>.</p>

<p>For example, a Gaussian function can be normalized into a probability density function, which gives the standard normal distribution. In Bayes' theorem, a normalizing constant is used to ensure that the sum of all possible hypotheses equals 1. Other uses of</p><p>
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