A bell curve is a graph depicting the normal distribution, which has a shape reminiscent of a bell. The top of the curve shows the mean, mode, and median of the data collected.

NetMBA: The Normal Distribution (Bell Curve) Amanda McMullen. Contributor. Amanda McMullen is a freelancer who has been writing professionally since 2010.

The concept of the normal curve, also known as the Gaussian distribution or bell curve, is foundational in understanding how data is distributed in many natural phenomena.

START The bell curve, that beautiful form of regularity, is getting turned upside down. In the mid-19th century, a few of Europe’s finest scientists and mathematicians noticed something peculiar ...

Human performance, by this account, does not often fit the bell curve or what scientists call a normal distribution. Rather, it is more likely to fit what scientists call a power distribution. The ...

That, my friends, is the normal distribution function. It's taken us awhile to get to it, but the evidence of Figure 9 is overwhelming. If, seeing Figure 9, you still aren't convinced that the sum of ...

Markets & the Bell Curve Academia and most Nobel Laurites in Economics say the stock market may be thought of as being “random” and having “normal distribution.” ...

Suppose that you are teaching a class on statistics, and your distribution of scores is normal - and the mean (average) score is 80 (of a possible 100). So that means that the lion’s share of ...

In case you need to jog your memory however, a standard normal distribution, which is a normal distribution with the average at 0 and standard deviation as 1, is shown below. The term ‘bell curve’ ...