empirical rule

empirical rule

Approximately 68 percent of the scores in a normal distribution are within one standard deviation, plus or minus, of the mean; approximately 95 percent of the scores are within two standard deviations; and approximately 99.7 percent of scores are within three standard deviations of the mean.

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