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Built-in Functions

Numerical Computation

Data Manipulation

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.

Further Examples

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