C# Plotting of a Normal Distribution

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Hi everyone,

I am trying to implement a graph in C#. I downloaded the ZedGraph library and tryed to figure out a way to implement the requirements but already got stuck when trying to plott a Normal Distribution (bell curve).

The requirements are following:
I need to be able to plott a Standard Normal Distribution out of the following formulae :

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y = (double)(1/Math.Sqrt(2 * Math.PI)) * Math.Exp((double)(-1/2) * Math.Pow(x, 2))

... and after some calculation - color a range of the curve to visualize a probability.

Now I am not sure how to visualize all of that stuff as the data is continuous and not only a set of discrete data.

I would really appreciate your help.

Cheers,
Haris

Posted 16-Mar-12 4:04am

Haris

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Andrew Rissing 16-Mar-12 10:10am

The equation you posted is a bell curve. I'm not following what you're asking then....

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Clifford Nelson · Answer 1 · 2012-03-16T05:30:00

Maybe you should not be trying to use a general purpose library, they usually are oriented towards business grahics. You can manually do it in WinForms or WPF. Both support drawing lines. In WPF you can use the canvas, and draw lines on the canvas: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms747393.aspx[^]. there should be quite a few resources available on the internet to tell you how to do drawing, either in WinForms or WPF.