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Empirical Rule

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PAS
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For data sets with symmetric normal relative frequency distributions,

  • ~68% of measurements fall within 1 standard deviation from the mean;
  • ~95% of measurements fall within 2 standard deviation from the mean;
  • ~99.7% of measurements fall within 3 standard deviation from the mean.

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