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What is a Pooled Standard Deviation?

The Pooled Standard Deviation is a weighted average of standard deviations for two or more
groups. The individual standard deviations are averaged, with more “weight” given to larger
sample sizes.
Once the pooled standard deviation has been calculated, SD pooled is used in place of SD1 and
SD2 in the formula for standard error. Along with an updated degrees of freedom formula (df = n1 +
n2 – 2), the idea is that you would be able to get a better model for the sampling distribution of
the sample mean.
Pooled standard deviations are used in many areas in statistics, including: effect size
calculations, t-tests, and ANOVAs. They are also used in lab-based sciences like biology and
chemistry, where they can be an indication for repeatability of an experiment.