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Normal Distribution Notation

The following notation is what we will use to identify a normal distribution and it’s parameters.

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Normal Distribution Notation

The following notation is what we will use to identify a normal distribution and it’s parameters.

identifies the distribution as approximately normal....

....with a given mean and standard deviation

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For example.....

The above distribution is approximately Normal with a mean of 13.5 and a standard deviation of 6.