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normal curve
[ nawr-muhl kurv ]
noun
- a bell curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable.
normal curve
noun
- statistics a symmetrical bell-shaped curve representing the probability density function of a normal distribution. The area of a vertical section of the curve represents the probability that the random variable lies between the values which delimit the section
Word History and Origins
Origin of normal curve1
Example Sentences
Make sure your chair allows you to maintain the normal curves in your spine.
While in a normal curve, Super Cruise will stay closer to the inside lane line, which is how most humans drive.
Human behavior distributes itself along normal curves, and the people you're trying to pre-identify are by definition at the tail end of the curve, outliers, the hardest to predict.
Second, scientists tend to think of men as machines, genes as their broken parts and variations in life as problems to be solved—aberrations outside the normal curve.
Dr. Ranjan Sudan, vice chair of education for the Duke University Department of Surgery, says the acceptance barrier is only a temporary one, apt to follow the normal curve of innovation.
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