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Topic: Bell Curve

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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

This allows the debate to be redirected to a technical discussion of bell curves and data collection that has nothing to do with change or improvement.
John Fielding,
CEO

A Bell Shaped Curve , with the peak matching the average performance of the sector would imply that the position of any one fund is pretty well random, and that, all other things being equal, it is impossible to use Past Performance as a guide to future performance.
Neurologists have long been at one end of the bell shaped curve in terms of income, but most physicians continue to make more per year than their Congressmen and certainly more than their patients.
Angela Berkley,
High School Student

The bell over the front door rang and her "appointments" came sashaying through the door in a cloud of bleached blonde hair and siliconed curves.
Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

The Lepel sealing head application curve plotted with conveyor speed vertically and closure size horizontally produces a bell shaped curve.
Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model

When the examples are pretty tightly bunched together and the bell-shaped curve is steep, the standard deviation is small.
The bell curves were fit by adjusting the area, mean, and standard deviation of the equation for a normal distribution (bell curve) of production versus time.
Rob Bruff,
Nightclub Bouncer

The best method to regulate these is a combo of dampening striker and reducing the hammer spring enough to bring the fill max to the far side of the bell shaped curve rather than the middle.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

As seen in Figure ES-4 the system life cycle costs follow a bell shaped curve where life cycle costs increase as the design point moves to the extremes of too small and too big a transmitter.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

A common bell-shaped curve used to calculate probabilities of events that tend to occur around a mean value and trail off with decreasing likelihood.
A Gaussian curve is typically used to represent a normal or statistically probable outcome for a random distribution of events and is often shown as a bell shaped curve.
That means that the probability density function is a bell-shaped curve.
 
 
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