April 11, 2009 - Normal Probability Distributions

NORMAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

KEY CONCEPTS

A. Introduction to Normal Probability Distributions
a) Continuous probability distribution
o Normal distribution
o Properties of a normal distribution
o Standard normal distribution
o Properties of a standard normal distribution

B. Normal Distributions: Finding Probabilities
a) Probability of a random variable

C. Normal Probabilities: Finding Values
b) Find variable x-values within areas under the standard normal curve

D. Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem
a) Defining sampling distribution
b) Properties of sampling distributions of sample means
c) Central Limit Theorem