Review the resources listed below to prepare for this week's assignment. Before reviewing these resources, read through the assignment instructions so you know what you will be expected to do with this material.
Textbook Reading (Straightforward Statistics : Understanding the Tools of Research)
Kahn Academy. (2009, April 28). Introduction to the normal distribution. Retrieved from: https://youtu.be/hgtMWR3TFnY
Reviewing this resource will give you a brief overview of normal distribution. The video is quite deep and mathematically technical but goes into the mathematical concepts behind the normal distribution in descriptive statistics.
Grand, T. (2015, Nov 27). Creating a Graph of the Standard Normal Distribution in Excel. Retrieved from: https://youtu.be/zkb9Qqos6bk
Reviewing this video will give you the steps to create a graph of the standard normal distribution using Microsoft Excel. The standard normal distribution has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. The graph dynamically displays the area under the curve from the left of the distribution for a specified z-score.