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Rule of thumb
If the variable is normally distributed with mean
and standard deviation
, in brief
, sometimes the following rule is used: there is about
% chance that an observation
is in the interval
and about
% chance that it will lie in the interval
.
How would you verify this rule?
Solution.
Just compute the probability:%, by using the standard normal variable
and Table 3. A similar computation leads to
.
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