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Standard Deviation
Formula and Calculation of Standard Deviation
Consider a situation in which you have a particular amount that you want to invest. So, what
are the things you consider before investing your money? Typically, you consider the risk of
making that particular investment. And yes, you also take a good look at the highest and lowest
returns on the investment
So, when you are observing a range of returns, you're mainly looking at the deviation of returns
from its expected value shown in the advertisements. Standard deviation is a broad concept
that encircles all such elements. In this article, you can learn about standard deviation statistics,
its formula, and steps to solve it
Standard deviation is an important topic of statistics. It actually measures the amount of
variation of a specific set of values. A low standard deviation means that the set of values are
not much deviated from the mean values of the set and a high denotes a greater deviation from
the mean of the set. It is thus able to determine the uncertainty in a set of values
In Physics, to get precision in the measurement standard deviation plays a role since it gives an
idea of how much the value is deviated from the actual value. It is thus often used in day-to-day
life to compare data from the test model or the actual expected value. It is often denoted by SD
and represented by the symbol. The details of standard deviation can be learnt from this article
What are the Variance and Standard Deviation?
Variance: It helps to measure how far the data has spread out. When all the data values are
identical, then variance turns out to be zero. And all non-zero variances get considered as
positive. A lower variance denotes that the data values are closer to each other and the mean
When the data points are far away from one another and the mean, it means the variance is
high. In simple words, you can define variance as the average of squared distances from every
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Standard Deviation: It helps to determine the dispersion from the mean. Dispersion refers to a
value by which an object differs from another object; in this case, it's an arithmetic mean.
Standard deviation denotes the typical deviation from the mean. It's the most favorite option for
gauging deviation because it returns to the primary units of measurement of the data set
Also, it's similar to variance; when the data points are closer to the mean, the variation is
minimal. And when data points are far away from the mean, then there’s high variance.
Standard Deviation v/s Variance
You can obtain the variance by taking the mean of the data points and subtracting the mean
from each data point separately. After that, you have to square the results and take another
mean of those squared values. Standard deviation is nothing but the square root of the
variance value
Variance and Standard Deviation Formula
The following are the formulas for variance and standard deviation. Typically, it gets denoted by
sigma (0).
Standard Deviation Formula:
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Here, ‘0’ stands for standard deviation. ‘X’ represents each value of the population. ¥ indicates
the mean of all the values and ‘n’ shows the total number of values.
How to Calculate the Standard Deviation?Vedaniti,
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In statistical analysis, the uses of standard deviation are highly influential. It helps you with
measuring dispersion. The standard deviation has three distinct features. First is, it gets
measured by arithmetic mean. You can say that deviation gets measured by taking the mean of
the reference. Two, it deals with positive values. And finally, the standard deviation value is
always positive because it's a square root. Below you can leam the step-by-step way of
measuring standard deviation.
Steps to Calculate the Standard Deviation
* By adding alll the data points and dividing by the number of data points, you can obtain
the mean value
* By subtracting the value of data points from the mean, you can get the variance for each
of the points. Next, you need to square the obtained values and sum the resutts. After
that, you need to divide the results by the number of data points.
+ Now, you need to take the square root of the variance from the previous step. And the
resulting value is your standard deviation
Solved Examples
Question: Find the standard deviation of the numbers given (3, 8, 6, 10, 12, 9, 11, 10, 12, and
7).
Answer: Step 1: First, we need to find the mean of those ten given values.
3+8+6+10+12+9+11+10+12+7)/10=88/10=88
Step 2: You need to make a table as below with three columns. One column holds the values
of x, the second column holds the deviations, and the third has squared deviations
(Note: You may not need a table when computing a lesser number of values.)Vedaniti,
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Value (x) x-x (x-xF
3 58 33.64
8 08 0.64
6 28 7.84
10 1.2 144
12 3.2 10.24
9 02 0.04
11 az: 484
10 4.2: 1.44
12 32 10.24
7 18 3.24
Total oO 73.6
Step 3: Since the data is not in the form of sample data, you need to use the formula of the
population variance.
The standard deviation formula is, o = V Yi=1n (xi-)* /N
17.36
Now, you have o=~173.6/10
Finally, the standard deviation you get is 2.71
Understand the definition of standard deviation and its difference with variance. Focus on
learning the derivation and utilization of the formula for better applications.Vedaniti,
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