Tchebycheff's Inequality

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Tchebycheff's Inequality
Message posted by Chito E. (via 61.9.112.206) on January 3, 2002 at 1:25 AM (ET)

Can someone explain to me the meaning of Tchebycheff's Inequality?

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Re: Tchebycheff's Inequality
Message posted by JG (via 128.8.22.3) on January 4, 2002 at 8:34 AM (ET)

If you are given the mean and SD, then this inequality say that within k SDs of the mean we must have
(1-1/(k squared )) if the probability. That is, within 2 SDs we have .75 of the probability.

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