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Bell Curve
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Bell Curve
A curve on a chart in which most data points cluster around the median and become less frequent the farther they fall to either side of the median. When plotted on a chart, a bell curve looks roughly like a bell.


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The software quickly calculates: (a) the mean value and the standard deviation of all the measurement values; (b) the Log-Normal distribution; (c) the Gaussian distribution; (d) the deviations from the Log-Normal and Gaussian distributions in terms of the Kolmogoroff-Smirnov and Chi-square tests; (e) skewness; and (f) excess of the measured distribution.
In addition, we assume that both the spatial and the unstructured variability have Gaussian distributions, which are independent in the latter case.
 
 
 
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