Sometimes, you divide by (n) instead of (n-1). It's too complex to explain here. So don't try to go figuring out a standard deviation if you just learned about it on this page. Just be satisified that you've now got a grasp on the basic concept.
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The standard deviation is a statistic that tells you how tightly all the various examples are clustered around the mean (middle or average) in a set of data. When the examples are pretty tightly bunched together and the bell-shaped curve is...
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Student: Can you explain what standard deviation means? I'm doing a project in my biology class and we have to use it, and I don't understand it. ... Standard deviation is the name for one way of looking at how tightly (or loosely) grouped a set of data is. It lets you describe the variation in a whole set of data with a...
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Posted by hi! on 8 Oct 1997, at 3:09 p.m. ... Can someone explain standard deviation. ... Re: What is standard deviation? - Curious Amateur -- 8 Oct 1997, at 4:12 p.m.
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Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms by Dr. Howard S. Hoffman ... The standard deviation is one of several indices of variability that statisticians use to characterize the dispersion among the measures in a given population.
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Glossary Home Page ... Average Deviation ... Standard Error...
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Standard Deviation What is it? and why do I care ... This table shows all of Faulk’s receiving yardage from 2000 and a whole mess of other stuff that I’ll explain below.
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Meaning of Standard Deviation:; One way to explain the standard deviation as a measure of variation of a data set is to answer questions such as how many measurements are within one, two, and three standard deviations from the mean.
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; Does anyone have a simple, visual way to explain standard deviation to GB's? ... Standard Deviation for GB's by wm on Thursday, 15th May 2003 ... Re: Standard Deviation for GB's by 6 Sigma BB Coordinator on Friday, 16th May 2003...
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The Standard Deviation; Dear Students, ... Because of its name, many people think (incorrectly) that the standard deviation indicates the "standard" (i.e., ... Although the standard deviation is, in fact, based on deviation scores, the process of getting the SD is a bit more complicated than what's indicated above.
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