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The Normal Distributions A density curve is a curve that Is always on or above the horizontal axis, and Has area exactly 1 underneath it

A density curve describes the overall pattern of a distribution. The area under the curve and above any range of values is the proportion of all observations that fall in the range. There are many types of density curves. We are going to focus on a family of curves called Normal curves. The mean and standard deviation computed from actual observations (data) are denoted by and s, respectively. The mean and standard deviation of the distribution represented by the density curve are denoted by (mu) and (sigma), respectively. Normal curves are: bell-shaped not too steep, not too fat defined means & standard deviations

The Normal Distribution: Mean defines the center of the curve Standard deviation defines the spread Notation is N(,). Symmetrical around Infections points (change in slope, blue arrows) at

Standard Normal (Z) Distribution: The Standard Normal distribution has mean 0 and standard deviation 1 We call this a Z distribution: Z~N(0,1) Any Normal variable x can be turned into a Z variable (standardized) by subtracting and dividing by :

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Standardized Scores:

How many standard deviations is 68 from on X~N(70,2.8)? z = (x ) / = (68 - 70) / 2.8 = -0.71 The value 68 is 0.71 standard deviations below the mean 70

The standard normal table is table A. Table A is a table of areas under the standard normal curve. The table entry for each value z is the area under the curve to the left of z