Also known as the normal distribution, the term "bell curve" originates from the fact that the graph used to depict a normal distribution consists of a symmetrical bell-shaped curve.

If your baby is “following the curve” of the growth chart, she’s paralleling one of the percentile lines on the chart, and the odds are good that her caloric intake is fine, no matter how ...

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For reasons that will become clear, we'll focus like a laser on a thing variously called the bell curve , Gaussian distribution , or normal distribution . Now, I've been dealing with problems ...

The chart below depicts three curves of increasing right-skewness, with fat tails to the downside—and which differ from the symmetrical bell curve shape of the normal distribution. Right skewness.