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Which result guarantees a minimum share of data within k standard deviations for any distribution?
ABayes rule of odds
BBessel's correction
CChebyshev's inequality
DLaw of large numbers
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Chebyshev's inequality
Chebyshev's inequality holds for every distribution with a defined standard deviation.
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