Probability distribution

Normal curve
● Probability distribution

● A probability distribution is the mathematical function that gives the

probabilities of occurrence of different possible outcomes for an experiment.
It is a mathematical description of a random phenomenon in terms of its
sample space and the probabilities of events (subsets of the sample space).

● Normal curve

● The normal distribution is a continuous probability distribution that is

symmetrical on both sides of the mean, so the right side of the center is a
mirror image of the left side. ... The normal distribution is often called the
bell curve because the graph of its probability density looks like a bell.
Normal curve based on a probable occurance of an event when that
probability depends on chance, when each event has an equal chances of
occuring that is occurance of the event must be equally, likely and must be
mutually independent.
 ● Normal probability distribution

• About 68% of values drawn from a normal distribution are within

one standard deviation σ away from the mean; about 95% of the
values lie within two standard deviations; and about 99.7% are
within three standard deviations.[6] This fact is known as the
68-95-99.7 (empirical) rule, or the 3-sigma rule.

● Principles of normal probability curve

• Normal curve is based upon the probable occurance of an

event.
• Each event has an equal chances of occuring.
• The occurrence of the event must be equally and likely
must be mutually independent curve.
• The normal curve or normal distribution closely
resembles the binomial distribution.
• The occurrence of the event must depend purely upon
chance.
• A large number of observations must be made to get the
normal curve.
• There is only one maximum point in the normal curve.

● Properties of normal probability curve

• Normal curve is also called as normal probability curve, bell

shaped curve and gassian curve and curve of error.
• There is high concentration of score in central of normal curve.
• The normal curve is sloping towards the end.
• The mean, mode and median are all equal. The curve is
symmetric at the center (i.e. Around the mean, μ). Exactly half of
the values are to the left of center and exactly half the values are
to the right. The total area under the curve is 1.
•The Gaussian distribution belongs to the family of stable
distributions which are the attractors of sums of independent,
identically distributed distributions whether or not the mean or
variance is finite. Except for the Gaussian which is a limiting case,
all stable distributions have heavy tails and infinite variance.