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