What Is Standard Deviation

What Is Standard Deviation We can interpret the standard deviation with the help of given formula S = (x x)2, N Here the S represents the standard deviation: each value of the sample is represented by the value X and the mean of the value is denoted by the value X: and N stands for the number of values. Now we will see those steps which will help us to solve the standard deviation formula. These steps are as under: * First of all select the data to for which we have to calculate the standard deviation * Then our next step is to find the average values of all the selected data. * The next step is to subtract the average value from the original value which is given in the data

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* Then substitute all these values in the formula of standard deviation which we have already stated above To understand these steps in the more precise manner we will consider the example: suppose we are given with the data 16, 10, 2, 13, 4 to calculate the standard deviation now we will follow the procedure: Formula of standard deviation is: S = (x x)2, N Our second step is to calculate the average of the data: = = x1+ x2+ x3 + x4 +x5. + xN N = 16+ 10 + 2 + 13+4; 5 =9 So the average of the data is 9 The next is of estimation of the values of x x X1 x = 16 9 = 7; X2 x = 10 9 = 1; X3 x = 2 9 = -7;

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X4 x = 13 9= 4; X5 x = 4 9= -5; Now to calculate(X1 x)2; (X1 x)2 = (X1 x)2 + (X2 x)2 + (Xn x)2 = (7)2 + (1)2 + (-7)2 + (4)2 + (-5)2 = 49 + 1 + 49 + 16 + 25 = 140 Now substitute all the values in the formula: S = (x x)2, = 140, 5 = 28 = 5.29; Now the conclude interpretation is that the large standard deviation implies that the data point are far from the average and the when the data point are closely clustered from mean this indicates the small standard deviation. N

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