statistics

normal distribution

also: Gaussian distribution

Symmetric bell-shaped distribution.

Classification

statistics
the name evokes: eponym

Attestation

English definition: The elements of graphing data

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215 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 6 books

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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. normal distribution. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/normal-distribution.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-normal-distribution,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {normal distribution},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/normal-distribution.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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