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> Standard deviation away from the mean don't correspond to the same percentiles for all distributions, or do they? If they had said a two standard deviation i
by jrumbut 3y ago
> Standard deviation away from the mean don't correspond to the same percentiles for all distributions, or do they?
If they had said a two standard deviation interval then you would have needed to know the distribution, but they said 95% which gives you all the information you need to make the bet.
- eru 3y agoI was replying to this addendum, which only really works for the normal distribution: > Edit for OP's explicit question: One standard-deviation errorbars are 68% confidence intervals. Two standard deviations are 95% confidence intervals. (assuming you're a frequentist, of course) You are right about the first part of the original comment.