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Re:Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees ab... by tomrod on Saturday March 19, 2022 @12:32PM (#30735133)
An observation bound below by 5 standard deviations is at best a one in a million on a standard normal distribution.
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Re:Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees ab... by FabHK on Sunday March 20, 2022 @07:31AM (#30741784)
Yes, for a normal, which is known to have extremely thin tails (decaying with a squared exponential!). Chebyshev's bound holds for any possible distribution (with finite variance).
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Re:Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees ab... by FabHK on Sunday March 20, 2022 @09:52AM (#30742586)
Not squared exponential (that's just an exponential), but exponential of a square, even. Anyway.
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