The standard deviation is a measure of how precise the average is, that is, how well the individual numbers agree with each other. Use our online standard deviation calculator, a free standard deviation tool to find deviation of the given set of the numbers.
x is the set of the numbers
x̄ or mean is the average of the set of the numbers
n is the size of the set
SD or σ is the standard deviation
This formula indicates that the standard deviation is the square root of an average. This average is the average of the squared differences between each value and the mean. The differences are squared to remove the sign so that negative values will not cancel out positive values. After summing up these squared differences and dividing by N, the square root is taken to give the result in the original scale. That is, the standard deviation can be thought of as the average difference between the data values and their mean (the terms mean and average are used interchangeably).
It is difficult to understand the standard deviation solely from the standard deviation formula. There are two general interpretations that can be useful in understanding the standard deviation.
1. The standard deviation may be thought of as the average difference between an observation and the mean, ignoring the sign.
2. The standard deviation may be thought of as the average difference between any two data values, ignoring the sign.
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