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  • Normal distribution
    Normal distribution
    In probability theory and statistics, the normal distribution or Gaussian distribution is a continuous probability distribution that describes data that cluster around a mean or average. The graph of the associated probability density function is bell-shaped, with a peak at the mean, and is known...

    , whose density function graph is a bell-shaped curve
  • The Bell Curve
    The Bell Curve
    The Bell Curve is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book by the late Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray...

    , a book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray
  • Bell curve grading
    Bell curve grading
    In education, grading on a curve is a statistical method of assigning grades designed to yield a pre-determined distribution of grades among the students in a class...

    , a method of evaluating scholastic performance.
  • Pear-shaped body.