STANDARD DEVIATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The square root of the variance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("standard deviation" is a kind of...):

variance (the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

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