James Nasty -

A few more terms i have encountered on my journey to a solution are Ogive
functions, gaussian distribution, cumulative distribution function. any
help and enlightenment is appreciated. <

"Gaussian distribution" is another name for the normal distribution
(bell-shaped density function).

"Cumulative distribution function" accumulates frequency, probability, or
density corresponding to values of a frequency distribution, probability
mass function, or probability density function.

"Ogive" refers to the shape of a cumulative distribution. For example, the
ogive is an S-shaped cumulative distribution for the bell-shaped normal
density function.

For more information and alternative definitions, refer to any basic
statistics book or type the phrase into www.google.com.

- Mike Middleton