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Re: That's incorrect... - Edit 1

Before modification by Tor at 29/10/2012 10:40:49 AM

A Bell Curve is a perfectly normal distribution. Perfectly symmetrical. Otherwises it's not a Bell Curve.


Yes, but as I said, no real data is ever a perfect bell curve. When people say "it's a bell curve", they actually mean "it's reasonably well described by a bell curve".

Edit:

In fact, as the curve is truncated at zero, it can't be a perfect bell curve in any case, as one of the properties of the normal distribution is that the probability never reaches zero.

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