For example, suppose that the manufacturing process described in the previous example produces engines whose weights are normally distributed with a mean of 1250 and a standard deviation of 12. The ...

An animated guide explaining how the standard devition can give you a clearer picture of a sample than averages alone. An example involving zoo keepers and some very dangerous animals demonstrates ...

Flickr via Google Images Standard deviation is a concept that's thrown around frequently in finance. So what is it? When working with a quantitative data set, one of the first things we want to know ...

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