Bell Curve

Bell curve may refer to:

  • A Gaussian function, a specific kind of function whose graph is a bell-shaped curve
  • Normal (Gaussian) distribution, whose density function is a Gaussian function
  • The Bell Curve, a 1994 book by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray
  • Bell curve grading, a method of evaluating scholastic performance

Famous quotes containing the words bell and/or curve:

    “The sad, the lonely, the insatiable,
    To these Old Night shall all her mystery tell;
    God’s bell has claimed them by the little cry
    Of their sad hearts, that may not live nor die.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty.... Here was every sensuous curve of the “human figure divine” but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.”
    —Edward Weston (1886–1958)