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Ch 5·§5.5 Normal distribution and the Empirical Rule
5.5

5.5 Normal distribution and the Empirical Rule

The bell-shaped distribution that powers most inferential statistics. The Empirical Rule fixes three numerical landmarks: 68% within one standard deviation of the mean, 95% within two, and 99.7% within three.

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