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Old 10-31-2007, 06:15 PM
LarryLaughs LarryLaughs is offline
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Default Re: Understanding normal distribution graphs

It may also help to understand that the area below the normal distribution curve is 1. It represents all possible results of a given normally distributed variable. Any single case is an infinitely "thin" slice of the area (along the y-axis direction), which is why there is no real probability of that specific value occuring, just what is the likelihood of a smaller or larger value appearing.
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