Do It Yourself!: Visualizing Normal Curves

Use your mouse to move the sliders for the mean and standard deviation of the red curve. Notice how they change the shape of the normal distribution (represented in red) relative to the standard normal (z) distribution (represented in blue) which has mean zero and standard deviation one.

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