illustrates the process of finding a left cumulative area on a normal curve
Two methods are shown - one is the usual way of cranking out calculations and finding values in a table. You should master this method to ensure you understand what is going on in the process. But, once you have practiced it sufficiently and feel confident, it is actually ok to use the David M. Lane Web App to make your life just a little easier - we could all use a little ease at this point!
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Let's find out the probability that a randomly selected individual is taller than I am. We will use some data from a textbook dataset and examine the descriptive statistics first. Note that the data appears to be approximately normally distributed - I describe what that means in more detail.
We find that I am actually pretty tall - at least taller than 92% of the females in this data set.
Thanks to David M. Lane for the help - use this site for fun.
