Meaning

1 senses
  1. 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).

    Standardabweichung

    станда́ртное отклоне́ниеstandártnoje otklonénije

    станда́ртне відхи́ленняstandártne vidxýlennja

    the square root of the variance

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Let's have a look at the standard deviation.

    Розгляньмо стандартне відхилення.

    deSchauen wir uns die Standardabweichung an!

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Translations

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Origin

Coined by English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist Karl Pearson in 1894 in his

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

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Forms

plural: standard deviations

Synonyms

2 synonyms

See also

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