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  2. Normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    A normal distribution is sometimes informally called a bell curve. [8] However, ... Carl Friedrich Gauss, for example, once defined the standard normal as ...

  3. Bell-shaped function - Wikipedia

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    The Gaussian function is the archetypal example of a bell shaped function. A bell-shaped function or simply 'bell curve' is a mathematical function having a characteristic "bell"-shaped curve. These functions are typically continuous or smooth, asymptotically approach zero for large negative/positive x, and have a single, unimodal maximum at ...

  4. List of probability distributions - Wikipedia

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    The normal distribution, also called the Gaussian or the bell curve. It is ubiquitous in nature and statistics due to the central limit theorem: every variable that can be modelled as a sum of many small independent, identically distributed variables with finite mean and variance is approximately normal. The normal-exponential-gamma distribution

  5. Gaussian function - Wikipedia

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    The graph of a Gaussian is a characteristic symmetric "bell curve" shape. The parameter a is the height of the curve's peak, b is the position of the center of the peak, and c (the standard deviation, sometimes called the Gaussian RMS width) controls the width of the "bell".

  6. Shape of a probability distribution - Wikipedia

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    The normal distribution, often called the "bell curve" Exponential distribution. ... For example, a flat distribution can be said either to have no tails, or to have ...

  7. Standard normal table - Wikipedia

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    Normal distributions are symmetrical, bell-shaped distributions that are useful in describing real-world data. The standard normal distribution, represented by Z , is the normal distribution having a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.

  8. Probability distribution - Wikipedia

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    Figure 2: The probability density function (pdf) of the normal distribution, also called Gaussian or "bell curve", the most important absolutely continuous random distribution. As notated on the figure, the probabilities of intervals of values correspond to the area under the curve.

  9. Norm-referenced test - Wikipedia

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    The term "curve" refers to the bell curve, the graphical representation of the probability density of the normal distribution, but this method can be used to achieve any desired distribution of the grades – for example, a uniform distribution.