A.1 Normal distribution
X is normal with mean θ and variance 
, denoted
if it has density
The mean and variance are
Because the distribution is symmetrical and unimodal, the median and mode both equal the mean, that is,
If 
and 
, that is, 
, X is said to have a standard normal distribution
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