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The Theoretical Normal Curve
(from http://www.music.miami.edu/research/statistics/normalcurve/images/normalCurve1.gif
Properties of the Normal
Curve:
Theoretical construction
Also called Bell Curve or Gaussian Curve
Perfectly symmetrical normal distribution
The mean of a distribution is the midpoint
of the curve
The tails of the curve are infinite
Mean of the curve = median = mode
The “area under the curve” is measured in
standard deviations from the mean
Properties (cont.)
Has a mean = 0 and standard deviation = 1.
General relationships: ±1 s = about 68.26%
±2 s = about 95.44%
±3 s = about 99.72%
68.26%
95.44%
99.72%
-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
The Normal Curve
There are known
percentages of scores above
or below any given point on Mean = 65
S=2
a normal curve
0.70
34% of scores between the 99.72% of cases
0.60
mean and 1 SD above or 95.44% of cases
Relative Frequency
below the mean 0.50
68.26% of cases
An additional 14% of scores 0.40
between 1 and 2 SDs above 0.30
or below the mean
0.20
Thus, about 96% of all
0.10
scores are within 2 SDs of
2% 14% 34% 34% 14% 2%
the mean (34% + 34% + 0.00
51 53 55 57 59 61 63 65 67 69 71 73 75 77 79
14% + 14% = 96%) -3S -2S -1S 0 +1S +2S +3S
Note: 34% and 14% figures
can be useful to remember
The Standard Normal Curve
“A standard score X−X
expresses a score’s z=
position in relation to the S
mean of the distribution,
using the standard
deviation as the unit of
measurement”
“A z-score states the
number of standard
deviations by which the
original score lines above
or below the mean”
Any score can be
converted to a z-score.