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CumulativeNormal

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Answer  
0.725746935430251

Parameter NameInputAn input expression?
z

Calculation description
Time-stamp calculation?  
  


Function Description

Returns, the cumulative unit Normal distribution function, i.e. for a  distribution, where:

 

 

The equivalent function in Microsoft Excel is NORMSDIST.

 

In practice, the website uses the following rational approximation to the above integral (as apparently do some versions of Microsoft Excel), source e.g. Abramowitz and Stegun (1970):

 

 

where:

 

, , ,

, ,

 

and  is the unit Normal density function, i.e.

 

 

Is a special case of MnProbDistCdf.

 


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