Chebycheff's Inequality redivivus!
Tables of the tolerance factors may be found in the following two
venerable texts. (They can also be calculated from the inequality with a
number of numerical analysis packages for the Mac or the PC)
Engineering Statistics, 2nd Edition; Bowker and Lieberman, Prentice Hall
Introduction to Statistical Analysis, 4th Edition, Dixon and Massey,
McGraw Hill
(I beg a dollop of forgiveness if there exist later editions of the cited
works but these are the ones gathering dust on my bookshelves.)
N.B. I seem to recall that this inequality is valid only for unimodal
distributions. I leave it to wiser heads on this list to confirm or deny
this recollection.
Frank
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