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Normal distributions are characterized by a bell shape, with the mean, mode, and median being equal, and 68% of data falling within one standard deviation. The standard deviation affects the spread of the distribution, with smaller values indicating a taller curve and larger values resulting in a flatter curve. In a standard normal model, approximately 5% of data falls into the tails, while 90% is concentrated in the center of the distribution.

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Normal Distribution

Normal distributions are characterized by a bell shape, with the mean, mode, and median being equal, and 68% of data falling within one standard deviation. The standard deviation affects the spread of the distribution, with smaller values indicating a taller curve and larger values resulting in a flatter curve. In a standard normal model, approximately 5% of data falls into the tails, while 90% is concentrated in the center of the distribution.

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Normal distribution

Properties of a normal distribution

Normal distributions come up time and time again in statistics. A normal distribution has

some interesting properties: it has a bell shape, the mean and median are equal, and 68% of

the data falls within 1 standard deviation.

 The mean, mode and median are all equal.


 The curve is symmetric at the center (i.e. around the mean, μ).
 Exactly half of the values are to the left of center and exactly half the values are to the
right.
 The total area under the curve is 1.

he standard deviation controls the spread of the distribution. A smaller standard deviation indicates that
the data is tightly clustered around the mean; the normal distribution will be taller. A larger standard
deviation indicates that the data is spread out around the mean; the normal distribution will be flatter and
wider.

One way of figuring out how data are distributed is to plot them in a graph. If the data is evenly
distributed, you may come up with a bell curve. A bell curve has a small percentage of the points on
both tails and the bigger percentage on the inner part of the curve. In the standard normal model,
about 5 percent of your data would fall into the “tails” (colored darker orange in the image below) and 90
percent will be in between. For example, for test scores of students, the normal distribution would show
2.5 percent of students getting very low scores and 2.5 percent getting very high scores. The rest will be
in the middle; not too high or too low. The shape of the standard normal distribution looks like this:

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