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Normal distribution

  • Looks like a bell curve
  • There is as much probability of something happening below the mean as above it
  • Also called a Gaussian or Gauss curve because Gauss discovered it

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Normal distributions are important in statistics and used very often to represent the spread of naturally occurring random variables.


Source:
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution
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