Asked by Moyer

Some books give the following rule of thumb for finding the standard deviation of a normally distributed variable: s= range/6. Explain why this rule works.

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Answered by bobpursley
Hmmm. Most books give the rule of thumb as

standardDeviation=Range/4

That should be used where the mean and median are very close.
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