"Normal Distribution" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Continuous frequency distribution of infinite range. Its properties are as follows: 1, continuous, symmetrical distribution with both tails extending to infinity; 2, arithmetic mean, mode, and median identical; and 3, shape completely determined by the mean and standard deviation.
| Descriptor ID |
D016011
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.740.994.500 G17.820.500 N05.715.360.750.750.565 N06.850.520.830.994.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Normal Distribution- Normal Distribution
- Distribution, Normal
- Distributions, Normal
- Normal Distributions
- Gaussian Distribution
- Distribution, Gaussian
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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Normal Distribution" by people in Profiles.
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Clustering cancer gene expression data: a comparative study. BMC Bioinformatics. 2008 Nov 27; 9:497.
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Association of systemic concentrations of macrophage migration inhibitory factor with impaired glucose tolerance and type 2 diabetes: results from the Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg, Survey 4 (KORA S4). Diabetes Care. 2006 Feb; 29(2):368-71.
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