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Definition of Bell-shaped curve

1. Noun. A symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bell-shaped Curve

Literary usage of Bell-shaped curve

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... can be rejected because the pH dependence of the enzyme-anhydride active species involves a double sig- moid curve rather than a bell-shaped curve. ..."

2. The Elements of Statistical Method by Willford Isbell King (1912)
"The bell-shaped curve simply represents the relative height to which the vertical lines would extend provided the number of throws was infinite. ..."

3. Statistical Methods Applied to Education: A Textbook for Students of by Harold Ordway Rugg (1917)
"A glance at the bell-shaped curve shows this to be incorrect. As Pearson says, "Between mediocrities, the unit of rank,... is practically zero; ..."

4. Experimental Studies of Mental Defectives: A Critique of the Binet-Simon by John Edward Wallace Wallin (1912)
"... or bell-shaped curve of frequency were rendered more or less inoperative in our testing by some constant factor or factors. These factors may reside in ..."

5. The Mental Health of the School Child: The Psycho-educational Clinic in by John Edward Wallace Wallin (1914)
"... or bell-shaped curve of frequency, were interfered with in our testing by some constant factor or factors. These factors can only reside in the method ..."

6. Nutrient Composition of Rations for Short-term, High-intensity Combat Operations by Institute of Medicine (U. S.), Fnb, High-stress Situations, Committee on Military Nutrition Research, National Academy of Sciences (2006)
"Of course, persons with discrete defects in stress coping, constituting a separate group of individuals with their own transposed bell-shaped curve, ..."

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