Chebyshev's inequality

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Etymology

From the surname of Russian mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821–1894), the discoverer.

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Chebyshev's inequality

  1. (statistics) The theorem that in any data sample with finite variance, the probability of any random variable X that lies k or more standard deviations away from the mean is no more than 1/k2, i.e. assuming mean μ and standard deviation σ, the probability is:

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