representation. n. 1. the act or an instance of representing or the state of being represented. 2. anything that represents, such as a verbal or pictorial portrait. 3. anything that is represented, such as an image brought clearly to mind.
The standard deviation and range are both measures of the spread of a data set. Each number tells us in its own way how spaced out the data are, as they are both a measure of variation. The range relies on a very simple formula of subtracting the minimum data value from the maximum.
The Standard Normal Distribution. The standard normal distribution is a normal distribution with a mean of zero and standard deviation of 1. The standard normal distribution is centered at zero and the degree to which a given measurement deviates from the mean is given by the standard deviation.or the standard normal distribution, 68% of the observations lie within 1 standard deviation of the mean; 95% lie within two standard deviation of the mean; and 99.9% lie within 3 standard deviations of the mean. To this point, we have been using X to denote the variable of interest (e.g., X=BMI, X=height, X=weight).