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About what percent of  values lie between the second and third standard deviations (both sides)?

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In statistics, a normal distribution is a continuous variable with pdf

 

Where:  is the mean of the distribution and  is the standard deviation; notation . If the random variable is called the standard normal distribution.

In a normal distribution, the -score indicates how many standard deviations a given number is above or below the mean. The -negative score's value indicates that the value is below the mean, while the positive value indicates that it is above the mean.

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