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Haya94

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Explain how the empirical rule can be used to help describe data in a population or a sample.
 
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Holt-Winters' forecasting models are examples of qualitative and judgmental forecasting methods.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
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The empirical rule applies when the data distribution is bell-shaped. When this is the case, we know that approximately 68 percent of the data will fall with  1 standard deviation of the mean, approximately 95 percent will fall within  2 standard deviations of the mean, and virtually all of the data will fall within  3 standard deviations of the mean. Thus, by knowing that the distribution is bell-shaped and by knowing the mean and standard deviation, we know more about how the individual data are arranged.

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