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Graph of the Normal Distribution In a normal distribution, values are most concentrated around the mean, and the probability decreases smoothly as you move further away in either direction. The ...
When and why do you use lognormal distribution or normal distribution for analyzing securities? Lognormal for stocks, normal for portfolio returns.
Gaussian curves, normal curves and bell curves are synonymous. Each represents how statistical data with normal distribution plots on a graph. Normal distribution describes a particular way ...
For such cases, we need to extend the normal distribution, and in particular the variance, in scalar/matrix form. In the vector form of the normal distribution, the variance V becomes a matrix, ...
A Log-Normal distribution function is the normal distribution for the logarithm of the variable. In linear scale it is a highly skewed distribution with a long tail in the high productivity side.
Discover what a log-normal distribution is, its financial applications, and how to calculate it, including using Excel for practical financial analysis.
In this graph, the length of the bar shows the number of data values (x-axis) that fall in the range of the bar indicated on the y-axis. From this graph, the distribution of data looks relatively ...