"68-95-99.7 rule" meaning in English

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Proper name

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  1. (statistics mnemonic) The rule stating that a normal distribution will have 68% of its observations within one standard deviation of the mean, 95% within two, and 99.7% within three. Tags: mnemonic Categories (topical): Statistics Translations (statistics: empirical rule of 3σ): пра́вило трёх си́гм (právilo trjox sígm) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-68-95-99.7_rule-en-name-OvBNGS4N Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English mnemonics Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics

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