What Is a Normal Distribution Formula in Statistics? In order to be considered a normal distribution, a data set (when graphed) must follow a bell-shaped symmetrical curve centered around the mean.
This formula is used for calculating probabilities that are related to a normal distribution. Rather than using this formula to calculate these probabilities directly, we can use a table of values to perform our calculations.
Among the amazing properties of the normal distribution are that the normal sum distribution and normal difference distribution obtained by respectively adding and subtracting variates and from two independent normal distributions with arbitrary means and variances are also normal!