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[[Category: Analytic Distribution Functions]]
 
[[Category: Analytic Distribution Functions]]
 
[[Category: Distribution Densities library functions]]
 
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[[Category: Cumulative distribution functions]]
 
 
== CumNormal(X, mean, stddev) ==
 
Returns the cumulative probability
 
 
 
:<math>p = Pr[x \le X] = {1\over{\sigma \sqrt{2\pi}}} \int_{-\infty}^x exp\left(- {1\over 2} {{(X-\mu)^2}\over\sigma^2}\right)</math>
 
 
 
for a [[Normal|normal distribution]] with a given mean and standard deviation.  «Mean» and «stddev» are optional and default to ''Mean = 0'', ''stddev = 1''.
 
 
 
:<code>CumNormal(1) - CumNormal(-1) &rarr; .683</code>
 
 
 
i.e., 68.3% of the area under a normal distribution is contained within one standard deviation of the mean.
 
 
 
:[[image:CumNormalGraph.png]]
 
 
 
== Library ==
 
[[Distribution Densities Library]]  ([[media:Distribution Densities.ana|Distribution Densities.ana]])
 
:Use [[File menu|File]] &rarr; '''Add Library...''' to add this library
 
 
 
== See Also ==
 
* [[CumNormalInv]] -- the inverse cumulative density
 
* [[Normal]] -- The normal distribution
 
* [[Erf]] -- The closely related error function
 
* [[Sigmoid]](x) -- Another sigmoidal-shaped function
 
* [[Distribution Densities Library]]
 
* [[media:Distribution Densities.ana|Distribution Densities.ana]]
 

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