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normal distribution error section I.4

shiffman opened this issue · comments

I.4

The standard deviation percentages are off.

"68% of the members of that population will have values in the range of one standard deviation from the mean, 98% within two standard deviations, and 99.7% within three standard deviations."

Second number should be 95%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68%E2%80%9395%E2%80%9399.7_rule