Normal Curve
Definition
A normal curve, also known as bell curve or Gaussian distribution, represents data that clusters around a mean or average. It’s symmetrically balanced with half of all scores falling above and below the mean.
Related terms
Standard Deviation: This measures how spread out numbers are from their average value.
Mean: This is simply another name for average - it’s calculated by adding up all values and dividing by number of values.
Outliers: These are values significantly distant from other observations in a data set.
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