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noun
- 1. a quantity expressing by how much the members of a group differ from the mean value for the group.
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- Standard deviation
Dispersion of the values of a random variable around its expected value
In statistics, the standard deviation is a measure of the amount of variation of the values of a variable about its mean. A low standard deviation indicates that the values tend to be close to the mean (also called the expected value) of the set, while a high standard deviation indicates that the values are spread out over a wider range. The standard deviation is commonly used in the determination... Wikipedia
