Keywords: Normal Distribution NIST.gif from NIST source <blockquote> Normal data are data that are drawn come from a population that has a normal distribution This distribution is inarguably the most important and the most frequently used distribution in both the theory and application of statistics The shape of the normal distribution is symmetric and unimodal It is called the bell-shaped or Gaussian distribution after its inventor Gauss although De Moivre also deserves credit </blockquote> 2012-05-30 http //www itl nist gov/div898/handbook/pmc/section5/pmc51 htm NIST PD-USGov Uploaded with UploadWizard Normal distribution |