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Standard Deviation Calculation Steps

Standard deviation is a measure of how spread out numbers are in a data set. It is calculated by taking the square root of the average of the squared differences from the mean. Specifically, one finds the mean, calculates the squared distance of each value from the mean, sums those values, divides by the number of data points, and takes the square root of the result. This provides a single measure of variation or dispersion for the data set.

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Standard Deviation Calculation Steps

Standard deviation is a measure of how spread out numbers are in a data set. It is calculated by taking the square root of the average of the squared differences from the mean. Specifically, one finds the mean, calculates the squared distance of each value from the mean, sums those values, divides by the number of data points, and takes the square root of the result. This provides a single measure of variation or dispersion for the data set.

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Standard Deviation

The formula for standard deviation (SD) is

Where ∑ sum means "sum of", is a value in the data set, is the mean of the data
set, and n is the number of data points in the sample.

In order to solve standard deviation perform the following steps:

Step 1: Find the mean.

Step 2: For each data point, find the square of its distance to the mean.

Step 3: Sum the values from Step 2.

Step 4: Divide by the number of data points.

Step 5: Take the square root.

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