Session:6 The Normal Distribution
Key Terms
Introductory Business Statistics | Leadership Development – Micro-Learning Session
Rice University 2020 | Michael Laverty, Colorado State University Global Chris Littel, North Carolina State University| https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-business-statistics
- Normal Distribution
- a continuous random variable (RV) with pdf f(x) =
1σ2π−−√ e–(x – μ)2σ22
, where μ is the mean of the distribution and σ is the standard deviation; notation: X ~ N(μ, σ). If μ = 0 and σ = 1, the RV, Z, is called the standard normal distribution.
- Standard Normal Distribution
- a continuous random variable (RV) X ~ N(0, 1); when X follows the standard normal distribution, it is often noted as Z ~ N(0, 1).
- z-score
- the linear transformation of the form z = x−μσ
or written as z = |x – μ|σ
; if this transformation is applied to any normal distribution X ~ N(μ, σ) the result is the standard normal distribution Z ~ N(0,1). If this transformation is applied to any specific value x of the RV with mean μ and standard deviation σ, the result is called the z-score of x. The z-score allows us to compare data that are normally distributed but scaled differently. A z-score is the number of standard deviations a particular x is away from its mean value.