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standard normal distribution

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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As the degrees of freedom increase, the graph of the Student's t-distribution becomes more like the graph of the standard normal distribution.

From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020

Mathematically, as the degrees of freedom increase, the t distribution approaches the standard normal distribution.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

Because the sampling distribution is normally distributed, we can develop a standardizing formula and calculate probabilities from the standard normal distribution in the bottom panel, the Z distribution.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

The calculated value of the test statistic is Zc in this example and is marked on the bottom graph of the standard normal distribution because it is a Z value.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

The horizontal axis of the bottom panel is labeled Z and is the standard normal distribution.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

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