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bell-shaped curve
(redirected from Gaussian shape)

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bell-shaped curve [¦bel ¦shāpt ′kərv]
(statistics)
The curve representing a continuous frequency distribution with a shape having the overall curvature of the vertical cross section of a bell; usually applied to the normal distribution.


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A good approximation under these circumstances is a Gaussian shape rather than an impulse function.
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