Normal Distributions

This item is included in the following series/curriculum: Statistically Speaking

Grade Level: Senior High (10-12)-Adult
Subjects: Business mathematics
Produced By: Coast Learning Systems
Year: 2011
Country: United States
Language: English
Running Time: 30m

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As you have seen in earlier lessons, statisticians have visual and numerical ways of describing a set of data. Histograms are one of the most common ways to display numerical data. By looking at a histogram, we can easily see the mean and spread of the data. In this lesson, you will learn how the visual impression of a histogram is translated into curves that closely describe the data.

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