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Define a standard normal distribution. Why does a researcher want to go from a normal distribution to a standard normal distribution? Explain.

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The standard normal distribution in statistics is examined. A complete, neat and step-by-step solution is provided in the attached file.

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We know that the normal distribution probability function depends upon the values of the mean  and the standard deviation . Therefore, for different values of  and , we obtain different curves and we would have different tables for each pair of ...

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