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A method for evaluating the area of the normal function

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Many statistical procedures require the cumulative area and ordinate of the normal function corresponding to a given deviate. The development of a computer program for the application of probit analysis [1] to bio-assay led to the method described here.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 4, Issue 5
          May 1961
          48 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/366532
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          • Alan J. Perlis
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