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Bell Curve is a characteristic symmetric “bell”-shaped graph presenting a function. Thefunction, named after the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, is widelyused in different scientific areas. In statistics it describes the normaldistribution. normal distribution is a continuous probability distribution,where variables tend to cluster around a single mean value. The more a valuediffers from the mean value, it will occur with the less probability.

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