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Name: Normal Distribution: Introduction
ID: m16979
Language: English (en)
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: elementary, statistics
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Susan Dean (susanldean45@gmail.com), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu)
Copyright Holders: Maxfield Foundation (cnx@cnx.org)
Maintainers: Susan Dean (susanldean45@gmail.com), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu), Connexions (cnx@cnx.org)
Latest version: 1.12 (history)
First publication date: Jun 6, 2008 2:16 pm -0500
Last revision to module: May 31, 2012 6:04 am -0500

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Version History

Version: 1.12 May 31, 2012 6:04 am -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Normal Distribution: Introduction: Updated reference to tables.
Version: 1.11 May 30, 2012 9:55 am -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Normal Distribution: Introduction: Changed "Objectives" to "Outcomes." Other minor edits included.
Version: 1.10 Aug 19, 2011 10:45 am -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Normal Distribution: Introduction: Updated glossary item "Normal Distribution."
Version: 1.9 Feb 8, 2009 10:20 am -0600 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Normal Distribution: Introduction: Updated the glossary entry "Normal Distribution."
Version: 1.8 Jan 23, 2009 9:44 am -0600 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Normal Distribution: Introduction:  Added the sentence that starts and ends with, "If X is a quantity to be measured that has a normal distribution with mean ..., we designate this by writing.  In the sentence under the graph, changed "distribution" to "density."
Version: 1.7 Oct 27, 2008 6:51 pm -0500 by James Cooper
Changes: 
roles updated
Version: 1.6 Oct 1, 2008 3:48 am -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
Added link to video lecture
Version: 1.5 Jul 21, 2008 3:06 am -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
removed draft note
Version: 1.4 Jul 14, 2008 3:36 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
removed image width parameters from media tags
Version: 1.3 Jul 10, 2008 3:19 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
Corrected MathML error in formula
Version: 1.2 Jul 7, 2008 2:59 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
post review updates
Version: 1.1 Jun 26, 2008 1:55 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
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