Top "Standard-deviation" questions

Standard deviation (represented by the symbol sigma, σ) shows how much variation or "dispersion" exists from the average (mean, or expected value).

How to calculate a pooled standard deviation in R?

I want to calculate the pooled (actually weighted) standard deviation for all the unique sites in my data frame. The …

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Generate random numbers with fixed mean and sd

When generating random numbers in R using rnorm (or runif etc.), they seldom have the exact mean and SD as …

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Ellipse around the data in MATLAB

I would like to reproduce the following figure in MATLAB: There are two classes of points with X and Y …

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Compute average and standard deviation with awk

I have a 'file.dat' with 24 (rows) x 16 (columns) data. I have already tested the following awk script that computes …

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Standard deviation javascript

I am trying to get the standard deviation of a user input string. I have as follows, but it returns …

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Standard Deviation in LINQ

Does LINQ model the aggregate SQL function STDDEV() (standard deviation)? If not, what is the simplest / best-practices way to calculate …

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Standard Deviation for SQLite

I've searched the SQLite docs and couldn't find anything, but I've also searched on Google and a few results appeared. …

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Standard Deviation in R Seems to be Returning the Wrong Answer - Am I Doing Something Wrong?

A simple example of calculating standard dev: d <- c(2,4,4,4,5,5,7,9) sd(d) yields [1] 2.13809 but when done by hand, the …

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Pandas rolling standard deviation

Is anyone else having trouble with the new rolling.std() in pandas? The deprecated method was rolling_std(). The new …

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How can I do standard deviation in Ruby?

I have several records with a given attribute, and I want to find the standard deviation. How do I do …

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