standard deviation
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standard deviation
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Coined by English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist Karl Pearson in 1894 in his paper "On the dissection of asymmetrical frequency curves".
noun standard deviations
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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).
Similar: standard error, sigma
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noun statistical measure
| Español | desviación estándar, desviación típica |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 표준 편차 pyojun pyeoncha |
| 日本語 | 標準偏差 hyōjun hensa |
| 中文 | 標準差 /标准差 biāozhǔn chā |
| Kiswahili | mkengeuko wastani |
| Português | desvio-padrão |
| Français | écart type |
| Deutsch | Standardabweichung |
| Italiano | scarto quadratico medio, deviazione standard, scarto tipo |
| Ελληνικά | τυπική απόκλιση typikí apóklisi |
| Русский | станда́ртное отклоне́ние standártnoje otklonénije |
| العربية | انحراف معياري |
| עברית | סטיית תקן |
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