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Normal Distribution

The normal distribution is an extremely useful statistical distribution. Data for heights and weights of adults and objects produced by machines, for example, tend to follow the normal (bell-shaped) distribution. More importantly, if we take large enough samples of any data, the means of the samples can be modelled by a normal distribution. Psychologists use the normal distribution to classify people's test results,...


Tags: normal distribution, gaussian, gauss, bell curve

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