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It looks like a spike, not a bell.


A spike is not smooth (typically meaning continuous in the variable and its first derivative), which was one of the conditions.


Then take a Cauchy or a t-distribution. Basically anything with a longer tail than exp(x^2). The Gaussian summary will be misleading because of the tails.




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