Image talk:Standard deviation diagram.png
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Now don't get me wrong, I think this diagram is great. But the standard deviations become noticeably narrower the further out they are. I think having them change like that might be enough to confuse someone trying to figure out exactly what a standard deviation is from this picture... -- TastyCakes July 26th
i dont think the percentages are right on the picture. i mean the areas don't match the amounts they should represent. i think this is because the derivation is to near to the center. -- muckl
copied from Talk:Normal distribution: The color diagram showing percentages is somewhat misleading. The abscissa s=1 should correspond to the point of steepest slope on the curve, but it does not. Nor are the percentages drawn correctly. Anybody make a correct drawing ? Bo Jacoby 10:34, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
it would seem that this picture is not to scale and serves merely to demonstrate with numbers the overall shape of a normal distribution and how it is composed, is the actual math wrong? (it drives me nuts when people complain about accurately representing the size of a toothpick and an ocean liner in a 300x400 jpeg :P)
The graph has been replaced by one that was generated by PostScript, executing the Gaussian function, so it should be "correct" :) Patbeirne 23:20, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
