This is the ubiquitous bell-shaped curve. Some phenomena such as heights seem to naturally follow this distribution, whilst others, including coin-toss scores (the Binomial distribution), end up looking approximately Normal for sufficiently many tosses. This theoretical distribution is also known as a Gaussian distribution.
Used in Chap. 13: pages 148, 149, 153
Also used in hcistats2e: Chap. 1: pages 4, 5; Chap. 4: pages 45, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58; Chap. 6: page 73; Chap. 7: page 85; Chap. 8: pages 89, 92, 94, 95; Chap. 10: pages 110, 116, 117
Also known as: Gaussian distribution, Normally distributed
Used in glossary entries: approximately Normal, Binomial distribution, Normal distribution, theoretical distribution