The phrase "a normal means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a typical or standard method of doing something.
Example: "Using public transportation is a normal means of commuting in the city."
Alternatives: "a standard method" or "a typical way".
I happened to grow up in Oxford, England, a city, and country, where biking is a normal means of transport, no more a sport than bipedalism is.
Twenty years later, the language had ceased to be used as a normal means of communication, but, until recently, investigators have been able to find old people capable of giving useful information.
Jerdon's jumping ant, an Indian species that has leaping in its Latin name, Harpegnathos saltator, is apparently unique in using its jumping mechanism as a normal means of locomotion, not just as an escape mechanism.
An approximate likelihood ratio test for a normal mean vector with nonnegative components with application to clinical trials.
Standard Bayesian inferences concerning a normal mean are considered when, for robustness reasons, Cauchy prior distributions are utilized.
Basic ideas go back to Stein (1945) and Seelbinder (1953) who proposed a two-stage procedure for hypothesis testing about a normal mean.
We illustrate our results on a normal mean regression function and demonstrate the usefulness of a model based on piecewise constant functions.
We derive optimal two-stage adaptive group-sequential designs for normally distributed data which achieve the minimum of a mixture of expected sample sizes at the range of plausible values of a normal mean.
The normal spectral Doppler profile of the MCA has a sharp systolic upstroke with a step-wise diastolic deceleration, with a normal mean velocity of the MCA that is usually < 80 cm/s.
Inclusion criteria were: scores in these tests beyond two standard deviations; a normal mean intelligence quotient (IQ, evaluated with WISC III), i.e. between 85 and 115.
T-scores have a normal mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10 [ 24].
