Sentences with phrase «standard bell curve»

Many of the questions are ridiculous, designed to lead children astray so the standard bell curve can be preserved.

These ranges are based on a standard bell curve.

You have a huge number of individuals that must be measured and so in that given population, we know what a standard bell curve distribution is.

Not exact matches

On a bell - curve, about 95 % of your observations will be within two standard deviations one way or another, so only about 2.5 % of your observations will be beyond «two sigma» on the upside.

The Monte Carlo simulation presents results in the form of standard deviations on a bell curve.

Regarding the 95 % of the population, that's related to the bell shaped curve were 95 % of the people fall into two standard deviations of the mean.

After the child is evaluated in the private sector and the parents understand the application of standard scores, percentile ranks, and the bell curve, the parents see that the child's percentile rank scores have dropped.

With a normal distribution of performance (the classic bell curve), a standard deviation is simply a more precise measure of how spread out the distribution is.

If we imagine the usual «bell curve» of students, some states can set a high standard, resulting in relatively low percentages of proficient students, while other states can set a low standard, resulting in relatively high percentages proficient.

The 16 % of the faculty they represent (going back to the bell curve statistics and graphic) become the standard - bearers for their peers, and their successes at implementing new practices will influence the rest of the faculty.

When you have a bell - shaped curve, you typically report two pieces of information — the average and standard deviation.

It represents the distribution of a random variable in the form of a bell curve, with the exact shape defined by the expected value and the standard deviation.

The Monte Carlo simulation presents results in the form of standard deviations on a bell curve.

I would wager that something approaching 2 standard deviations of the population haven't got a clue what a bell curve is, and who's scientific and mathematical understanding is so poor that you would have to take a good half hour of one on one time to get a majority of them to grasp what a bell curve is and how it can be interpreted, and some never will..

Re # 49 the normal bell curve can look exponential between -2 and -1 standard deviations, so extrapolate with care.

Let's begin with the generally understood percentages for a bell curve (Gaussian probability distribution) in terms of standard deviations (sigmas):

We illustrate observed variability of seasonal mean surface air temperature emphasizing the distribution of anomalies in units of the standard deviation, including comparison of the observed distribution of anomalies with the normal distribution («bell curve») that the lay public may appreciate.

In my experience as a family law lawyer, however, it has seemed to me that the bell curve modeling the impact of legislation on my clients has perhaps a higher standard of deviation than the norm, giving the bell curve a greater population at the extremes and thus fatter tails than suggested by the normal distribution; in other words, my impression is that quite a bit more than 5 % of separating couples experience an unfair or very unfair result from the application of family law legislation.

Tours of current standard available iPad digital editions resulted in some value assessments that ran unfavorable, to our dismay and surprise the bell curve peak was skewed negative.

It is my very strong belief that if we picture the normal bell curve (below) and look at the portions to the left of the -1 and to the right of the 1 standard deviation (SD) delineations, we can see that these are two very important ends of the spectrum.