standard deviation
Etymology
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Etymology
Coined by English mathematician Karl Pearson in 1894 in his paper "On the dissection of asymmetrical frequency curves".
Nounstandard deviation (plural standard deviations)
- (statistics) A measure of how spread out data values are around the mean, defined as the square root of the variance. Represented with the Greek letter σ.
- standard error
- sigma
- French: écart type
- German: Standardabweichung
- Italian: scarto quadratico medio, deviazione standard, scarto tipo
- Portuguese: desvio-padrão
- Russian: стандартное отклонение
- Spanish: desviación estándar, desviación típica
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002