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standard deviation

noun

Etymology

Coined by English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist Karl Pearson in 1894 in his paper "On the dissection of asymmetrical frequency curves".

  1. derived from mathematician

Definitions

  1. A measure of how spread out data values are around the mean, defined as the square root…

    A measure of how spread out data values are around the mean, defined as the square root of the variance. Represented with the Greek letter σ (sigma).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA