NORMAL DISTRIBUTION


Meaning of NORMAL DISTRIBUTION in English

Function: noun

Date: 1897

: a probability density function that approximates the distribution of many random variables (as the proportion of outcomes of a particular sort in a large number of independent repetitions of an experiment in which the probabilities remain constant from trial to trial) and that has the form f(x) = (1/( σ √ 2 π ))e (-1/2[(x- µ )/ σ ] 2 ) where µ is the mean and σ is the standard deviation ― compare NORMAL CURVE

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