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Preferred term

standard deviation

Definition

  • [ SUICIDEO ][ NCIT ]* A measure of the range of values in a set of numbers. Standard deviation is a statistic used as a measure of the dispersion or variation in a distribution, equal to the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of the deviations from the arithmetic mean.

Broader concept

Creator

  • nsb@ceh.ac.uk

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/10149

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