The Truncated Normal Distribution
Note that the standard deviation of any distribution, represented by std(ˆ()), is simply the square root of the variance, so for the standard normal distribution, we also have that std(˚(0;1;)) = 1. 1.3 The Cumulative Distribution Function Recall that any probability density function ˆ(x) can be used to evaluate the probability that a random
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