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Biometry: The Normal Distribution
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
03/12/2013

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Normal Distribution
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A continuous probability distribution that is widely used in statistics.
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Standard Normal Distribution
Definition
The normal distribution to which all others are compared, it has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, and its "tails" extend from negative infinity through zero (the mean) to positive infinity.
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Z-scores
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Only the observations of interest which have been converted (standard scores or standard normal).
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Probability Plot
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A graph of the cumulative frequency plotted on the y-axis against the original measurement variable on the x-axis, where the y-axis uses a normal probability scale.
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