Tables of Normal Distribution Probabilities Are Found in Many Statistics

question 5

Multiple Choice

Tables of normal distribution probabilities are found in many statistics books. These probabilities are calculated from a normal distribution with ___________.

• A) A mean of 1 and a standard deviation of 1
• B) A mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15
• C) A mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 15
• D) A mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1

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Definitions:

Experimental Group

In research, the group of participants that receives the treatment or intervention under investigation to determine its effect.

Control Group

In experimental research, a group of subjects that does not receive the experimental treatment and is used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects do.

Parsimonious

Describing an approach or theory that is simple in its assumptions and explanations while still adequately explaining or predicting phenomena.

Mathematics

The abstract science of number, quantity, and space, either as abstract concepts (pure mathematics) or as applied to other disciplines such as physics and engineering (applied mathematics).