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‘Empirical Rule’ by Lawrence M. Lesser

4 January 2019 759 views No Comment

Larry Lesser of The University of Texas at El Paso repurposed Madonna’s signature song (and #2 hit), “Material Girl,” written by Peter Brown and Robert Rans, to teach the empirical rule.

Empirical Rule

lyric © 2017 Lawrence M. Lesser

Data values normally are
no more far away
Than 3 standard deviations
from the mean displayed.
And within 2 deviations, 19 of 20 lie, that’s right!
And within 1 deviation, 2/3 are confined,

    CHORUS: ‘Cause we are living in an empirical world
    and I need an empirical tool.
    You know that we are living in an empirical world
    and I use the empirical rule!

      If I think a population
      looks bell curve to me,
      The rule helps tag outliers like a
      z-score more than 3.
      But if the population may not
      take the normal shape (no way!),
      Frequencies that you expect can
      help you ascertain.

      (Repeat Chorus)

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