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Several classes to load probability distributions into qubit amplitudes;
:class:`~qiskit.circuit.library.UniformDistribution`,
:class:`~qiskit.circuit.library.NormalDistribution`, and
:class:`~qiskit.circuit.library.LogNormalDistribution` were added to the
circuit library (:mod:`qiskit.circuit.library`). The normal and
log-normal distribution support both univariate and multivariate
distributions. These circuits are central to applications in finance
where quantum amplitude estimation is used.