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Understanding Normal Distribution Basics

The normal distribution is one of the most important and widely used continuous probability distributions. It was first discovered by De Moivre in 1733 and further developed by Laplace and Gauss. The normal distribution can be viewed as the limiting form of the binomial distribution as the number of trials approaches infinity. It is defined by a probability density function that is centered around a mean and declines symmetrically on both sides based on the standard deviation. The standard normal distribution has a mean of zero and standard deviation of one. Its graph forms a characteristic bell-shaped normal curve.

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Understanding Normal Distribution Basics

The normal distribution is one of the most important and widely used continuous probability distributions. It was first discovered by De Moivre in 1733 and further developed by Laplace and Gauss. The normal distribution can be viewed as the limiting form of the binomial distribution as the number of trials approaches infinity. It is defined by a probability density function that is centered around a mean and declines symmetrically on both sides based on the standard deviation. The standard normal distribution has a mean of zero and standard deviation of one. Its graph forms a characteristic bell-shaped normal curve.

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PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION NORMAL INTRODUCTION Normal distribution is one is the most important and widely used continuous probability

ty distribution. It is mainly used to study the behavior of continuous random variables like height, weight and intelligence of a group of students. Normal distribution was first discovered by an English Mathematician Abraham De Moivre in 1733. But it was later rediscovered and applied by Laplace and Karl Gauss. Normal distribution is also known as Gaussian distribution after the name of karl Gauss. NORMAL DISTRIBUTION AS A LIMITING FORM OF BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION Normal distribution may be looked upon as the limiting form of binomial distribution under certain conditions: (1) n, the number of trials is infinitely large i.e. n (2) Neither p nor q is very small, DEFINITION OF NORMAL DISTRIBUTION Normal distribution is defined and given by the following probability function: ( P(X x) = .e )

Where = Mean, = Standard deviation, e (base of natural logarthim) = 2.7183 and = 3.1415 Normal distribution in its standard normal variate form is given by: P(Z) =

.e

where

The mean of z is zero and standard deviation of z is 1. Standard Normal Distribution is that normal distribution whose mean is zero and variance is unity. GRAPH OF NORMAL DISTRIBUTION

The graph of the normal distribution is called normal curve. Normal curve is the graphic presentation. The following figure illustrates the

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