normal distribution

A normal distribution would resemble a bell curve with a peak around three and a rapidly tapering tail in both directions, meaning the probability of an extreme event declines exponentially as the number of infections moves farther from the average.
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Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.
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Carlisle writes that the Air Force would want a crew ratio of 10 to one for each drone orbit during normal everyday operations.
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He appears only normal, even in video footage from just two minutes before the shooting.
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The flight path remained close to the Indonesian archipelago, well within what is the normal reach of air traffic control radar.
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Six months of sterility results, after which normal fertility returns.
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In the early stages of chronic nephritis, when diagnosis is difficult, it is usually normal.
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Walls End Castle, when the party broke up, returned to its normal state.
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No trait is better marked in the normal child than the impulse to subject others to his own disciplinary system.
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It is often present in the respiratory tract under normal conditions.
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Then, inexplicably, he shifted to the other side that the old, the normal Tom presented generously to the new.
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British Dictionary definitions for normal distribution

normal distribution

noun

statistics a continuous distribution of a random variable with its mean, median, and mode equal, the probability density function of which is given by (exp- [(x –μ)²/2σ²]/σ√(2π)) where μ is the mean and σ² the varianceAlso called: Gaussian distribution

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normal distribution

[ nôr′məl ]

A theoretical frequency distribution for a set of variable data, usually represented by a bell-shaped curve symmetrical about the mean.

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