Not necessarily.
A bell shaped probability distribution curve is NOT necessarily a normal distribution.
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the bell curve shape? anonymous
The Normal curve is a graph of the probability density function of the standard normal distribution and, as is the case with any continuous random variable (RV), the probability that the RV takes a value in a given range is given by the integral of the function between the two limits. In other words, it is the area under the curve between those two values.
Yes. The total area under any probability distribution curve is always the probability of all possible outcomes - which is 1.
A bell shaped probability distribution curve is NOT necessarily a normal distribution.
There is no histogram below.However, the area under the curve for any histogram is the total frequency.
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A normalized probability distribution curve has an area under the curve of 1.Note: I said "normalized", not "normal". Do not confuse the terms.
the bell curve shape? anonymous
The Normal curve is a graph of the probability density function of the standard normal distribution and, as is the case with any continuous random variable (RV), the probability that the RV takes a value in a given range is given by the integral of the function between the two limits. In other words, it is the area under the curve between those two values.
Yes. The total area under any probability distribution curve is always the probability of all possible outcomes - which is 1.
100%. And that is true for any probability distribution.
The normal distribution, also known as the Gaussian distribution, has a familiar "bell curve" shape and approximates many different naturally occurring distributions over real numbers.
We prefer mostly normal distribution, because most of the data around us follows normal distribution example height, weight etc. will follow normal. We can check it by plotting the graph then we can see the bell curve on the histogram. The most importantly by CLT(central limit theorem) and law of large numbers, we can say that as n is large the data follows normal distribution.
False. A normalized distribution curve (do not confuse normalized with normal), by definition, has an area under the curve of exactly 1. That is because the probability of all possible events is also always exactly 1. The shape of the curve does not matter.
True * * * * * No. The Student's t-distribution, for example, is also bell shaped.