Sentences with phrase «shaped normal curve»

Voters are distributed in terms of their preferences across a bell - shaped normal curve which means that there are many votes to be won in the centre.

Not exact matches

When large segments of the population, like the children in a school system, for example, are tested, it is found that their abilities are distributed fairly consistently along what has been called the normal, or bell - shaped curve.

This learning curve takes the shape of a simple, normal statistical distribution — a bell curve — and any child mastering language will travel along it.

This normal distribution of sleep needs in a population is a bell - shaped curve.

Avoid continuous use of high heeled or platform shoes, which distort the normal shape of the foot and throw the back's natural curves out of alignment.

Most often, the assumed probability distribution is the normal, Gaussian, bell shaped curve.

As we can see by following the blue line, a steep yield curve is shaped like a normal yield curve, except with two major differences.

The shape of the inverted yield curve, shown on the yellow line, is opposite to that of a normal yield curve — sloping downward.

When these points are connected on a graph, they exhibit a shape of a normal yield curve.

At least the yield curve has resumed a normal shape, as noted before, that will be good for the banks in the long run.

There are three main types of yield curve shapes: normal, inverted and flat (or humped).

According to PIMCO, the term new normal creates an environment where the consensus expectations has shifted from traditional bell - shaped curves to a much flatter distribution of outcomes with fatter tails.

The probability of occurrence of values in this range is called a probability distribution function (PDF) that for some variables is shaped similarly to a «Normal» or «Gaussian» curve (the familiar «bell» curve).

Provided we know the size and shape of the error in that original reading (Normal, log Normal etc) we can generate a spread of random values around our actual reading reflecting what it might be, and then for each of those read off the age that implies, using a table that randomly selects from the (smeared out) calibration curve at that value.

c) Right skew changes shape of curve, with more frequent hot extremes, but one could get that with same mean and variance, but depart from normal.