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Message posted by Peter (via 64.231.210.111) on January 6, 2002 at 4:31 PM (ET)
Thanks for your help, but I'm still a little confused, can you please explain where the 1.64 [2.65+1.64*0.35] comes from and why should I multiply it by the standard deviation?? Is it a formula, I should know?
Pete
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Re: percentiles
Message posted by JG (via 172.157.103.226) on January 6, 2002 at 9:19 PM (ET)
The formulat does not make sense, you must have copied it wrong. Otherwise, this is standard basic statistics.
Re: percentiles
Message posted by Jack Tomsky (via 12.144.103.66) on January 8, 2002 at 5:33 PM (ET)
The 95th percentile of a standard normal distribution is 1.644853. That's where the 1.64 comes from.
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