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Richard Routledge
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Professor of Statistics at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada.

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Chebyshev’s inequality, in probability theory, a theorem that characterizes the dispersion of data away from its mean (average). The general theorem is attributed to the 19th-century Russian mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev, though credit for it should be shared with the French mathematician…
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