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StandardDeviation

Usage

• StandardDeviation[list] gives the standard deviation of the elements in list.


Notes

• StandardDeviation[list] is equivalent to Sqrt[Variance[list]].
• StandardDeviation handles both numerical and symbolic data.
• StandardDeviation[{{ , , ... }, { , , ... }, ... }] gives {StandardDeviation[{ , , ... }], StandardDeviation[{ , , ... }]}.
• StandardDeviation works with SparseArray objects.
• See Section 1.6.7, Section 3.2.15 and Section 3.8.1.
• See also: Variance, Mean, Quantile.
• Related packages: Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics`, Statistics`MultiDescriptiveStatistics`.
• New in Version 5.
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