standard normal distribution

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statistics a normal distribution with mean zero and variance 1, with probability density function [exp(– 1/2 x ²)]/√2π

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Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.
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Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.
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The same Pediatrics journal notes that 17 states have some form of exception to the standard parental consent requirement.
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Christopher Nolan, Interstellar “My films are always held to a weirdly high standard,” Nolan told me.
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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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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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And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.
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The new creed, called the King's Book, approved by the houses of convocation, and made the standard of English orthodoxy.
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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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