The fourth central moment of a normal distribution is 3σ.

In Figure 7.7 half of the normal distribution is drawn.

Insurance companies use normal distributions to model certain average cases.

The normal distribution is shown as a blue line for comparison.

With normal distribution South would have taken 13 tricks, but he had a problem in making 12 when the heart five was led.

However, in general, each component does not necessarily have a normal distribution.

In standardized testing, results can be made to have a normal distribution.

Each of the two populations being compared should follow a normal distribution.

In terms of lectures, there was a fairly normal distribution.

I expect the graph would show approximately a normal distribution.

How close is this to what a normal distribution approximation would give?

Alternatively, the difference can be compared to a normal distribution.

These random effects are usually assumed to have a normal distribution.

This value can be read off a standard score statistics table for the normal distribution.

Further down the page is the example of a normal distribution with unknown mean and variance.

Simple examples can be given by a mixture of two normal distributions.

Both families add a shape parameter to the normal distribution.

The normal distribution is perhaps the most important case.

But the name also assumed that such events followed a normal distribution, which was surely not true.

"When you are doing breakthrough products, the normal distribution doesn't pick it up all the way," he said.

Authors may differ also on which normal distribution should be called the "standard" one.

To sample from the normal distribution we first choose an initial x - say 0.

Suppose X has a normal distribution with expected value 0 and variance 1.

If the data is consistent with a sample from a normal distribution the points should lie close to a straight line.

The texts of the messages would not be subject to normal distribution procedures.