Normal Distribution & Normal Curve
Normal Distribution concerns quantitative variable e.g. systolic BP, birth weights, age at menarche etc.
Summary values of quantitative data are:
Mean and Standard deviation (SD),
Mode and
Median
Standard deviation (SD) summarizes the variation of a large sample
Variable is mostly distributed normally if:
The sample is fairly large and
The sample units have been chosen randomly i.e. the sample is a ‘random sample’
Normal Distribution (Gaussian Distribution)